Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. With each fern no wider than an inch, mosquito ferns turned ...

FIFTY million years ago the Earth was overheated by greenhouse gases and the future of life seemed bleak. But a little green fern saved the day. Can it do it again? Behind the shift which created the ...

The aquatic term, 'azolla' together with the blue-green algae (anabaena azollae) provides a symbiotic association that can fix agronomically significant amounts of nitrogen (N). The usefulness of ...

In a major environmental concern, Azolla, an obnoxious water fern, never reported here earlier, is seen engulfed in large portions of Kumaharia and Rang Sagar water bodies. Udaipur: In a major ...