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Village of Pinecrest Pilots Floating Flower Islands

Pinecrest Pilots Floating Flower Islands to Tackle Water Pollution and Invasives The Village of Pinecrest spearheads ...
The Village of Pinecrest spearheads environmental innovation with a new pilot program that uses floating flower islands to filter pollutants, remove invasive plants and improve water quality in local ...
The cut flowers could pay for themselves and even turn a profit. Margi Rentis, CC BY-ND| Jazmin Locke-Rodriguez, Florida International University and Krishnaswamy Jayachandran, Florida International ...
Flowers grown on inexpensive floating platforms can help clean polluted waterways, over 12 weeks extracting 52 percent more phosphorus and 36 percent more nitrogen than the natural nitrogen cycle ...
Jazmin Locke received funding from the USDA-NIFA-NNF and NSF-CREST as a PhD student to help fund this dissertation research at Florida International University. [email protected] receives funding from ...