Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The cut flowers could pay for themselves and even turn a profit. Margi Rentis, CC BY-ND Flowers grown on inexpensive floating ...

AMES, Iowa – Islands have returned to Lake LaVerne. The sustainable environments interdisciplinary graduate program’s floating islands research project is back on Iowa State University’s landmark lake ...

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 ...