A new device called an algae turf scrubber is being used to help clean the water in Baltimore's Inner Harbor.The device works by pumping polluted water into a shallow screened trough, and as the water ...

In their quest to cure Baltimore’s ailing harbor, advocates and authorities have tried one gadget after another: floating wetlands, a solar-powered aerator, even a trash wheel. Add now the “algal turf ...

An article published in the June issue of BioScience describes the early scale-up stage of a new biotechnology with environmental benefits and possible commercial potential. Algal turf scrubbers are ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. “Nature sometimes isn’t pretty,” said University of Maryland environmental scientist Peter May, grabbing a clump of slimy green-brown gunk. That gunk lines ...

Weird as it seems, the work of a coral reef is being replicated on the rocky banks of the Susquehanna River near Holtwood. Here at the Muddy Run Pumped Storage power plant, two scientists are ...

This is an algal turf scrubber, a trade name. We’re calling it an algal flow way technology, and it is a technology that is ecologically engineered to use algae to strip nutrients and sediment out of ...

An article published in the June issue of BioScience gives a narration of the initial scale-up stage of a new biotechnology with environmental benefits. An article published in the June issue of ...