A Belgium-based company wants to harvest water hyacinths, the bane of south Louisiana boaters, to create fibers for products ranging from insulation to cat litter. Water hyacinths are invasive ...

NEW ORLEANS — There are floating islands of vegetation in the middle of Lake Pontchartrain just off the Causeway Bridge. In some areas, you can spot them as far as the eye can see. “I think it’s just ...

Zipping in an airboat over a thick mat of water hyacinths floating in an old oil and gas service canal in the Barataria Preserve, David Muth pointed to wispy trees lining the banks and raised his ...

Water hyacinth (Eichornia crassipes) is a free-floating freshwater perennial that is native to South America. It was introduced into the U.S. as an ornamental, but then escaped. It can form thick ...

A centuries-old technique for growing floating beds of vegetable crops is gaining popularity in Bangladesh's southern coastal districts, a response to flooding and sea rise worsened by climate change ...

An aquatic weed harvester clearing invasive water hyacinth at Kpong dam, Ghana. An aggressive proliferation of water hyacinth in southern Ghana's Volta Lake is crippling fishing activities, depleting ...

Mohammad Mostafa, a farmer in the low-lying deltas of southwestern Bangladesh, has revived his forefathers’ farming practice of growing crops on floating rafts as rising seas and storm flooding ...

This is a story in search of a statistician. I need someone with a head for numbers to predict the population of hippos that might occupy the Louisiana wetlands, if hippos had been imported at the ...

There is nothing obviously wrong with the view that greets Gladys Greenwood when she stands on her dock and looks out toward the San Jacinto River. Tall pines and stately oaks line the banks of the ...

NAZIRPUR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Mohammad Mostafa, a farmer in the low-lying deltas of southwestern Bangladesh, has revived his forefathers' farming practice of growing crops on floating rafts as ...

Water hyacinth removal efforts are intensified across the Cauvery Delta to enhance irrigation efficiency, reports WRD ...