The result is a floating patch of life that mimics natural wetlands, offering refuge for ... creating a dense mat that traps sediments, absorbs excess nutrients, and breaks down harmful chemicals.

But people aren’t the only ones intrigued by the floating wetlands; geese and ducks flock to the mats, sitting on the platforms and pooping phosphorus-rich excrement into the water. Pradhanang ...

The city of Decatur with the help of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students, deployed two floating wetlands on Lake ...

The six floating wetlands will form a kind of archipelago ... that can be arranged into different configurations. Some of the mats will incorporate a chained basket at the bottom for submerged ...

Conservation, nature and utility workers in Springfield are launching another floating wetland Wednesday at Fellows Lake. The goal of the man-made floating wetland is to improve water quality and ...

The structure is a floating wetland, and it was created by the Below and Above Collective – a group of Rhode Island artists and ecologists. Part garden and part art installation, the wetland is ...

Artificial floating wetlands naturally filter water from contaminants and excess nutrients. There are about a dozen in the state, and the Missouri Department of Conservation wants to add more.

The floating wetland, the first of its kind, set off from the north shore of the lake Monday morning and was pulled by a boat to the middle of a cove east of the marina, where it was anchored with ...

It's a floating wetland, that would function as a marsh without being a marsh. It was designed by a Northeastern professor and collaborators. "It's a network of floating marsh mats. They are ...