Georgiann Baldino on Nostr: "One of the world’s tiniest ferns, ...Azolla filiculoides may be one of our ...

"One of the world’s tiniest ferns, ...Azolla filiculoides may be one of our greatest tools for lowering agricultural pollution and greenhouse gas emissions....Fifty million years ago, Azolla filiculoides played a pivotal role in cooling the planet. Back then, the Arctic Ocean was a vast freshwater lake separated from other oceans by land bridges...[it] spread across large parts of the Arctic Ocean and crept onto surrounding continents." JSTOR https://daily.jstor.org/azolla-filiculoides-balancing-environmental-promise-and-peril/ #Sustainable #ClimateCrisis