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. On a ...

Do you think that an island can really survive a nuclear explosion? For a long time, islands were just natural pieces of land where indigenous people used to live and hunt. But now look at them. Today ...

Hoboken’s honorary bird could soon get its own artificial island in the Hudson River. Bird lovers are raising money to build a small floating island for common terns that will soon be evicted from a ...

As the morning sun shines over coastal Maryland, Kim Abplanalp guides a boat across the water while observing the birds overhead. "There is nowhere for waterbirds to nest anymore," said Abplanalp, the ...

Floating wetlands are engineered islands that hold plants and float on the water. The roots of these plants grow into the water and suck up the nutrients that would otherwise feed algae Algae blooms ...