Floating wetlands boost water quality, slash greenhouse emissions

bell-cot

It feels like this should have been obvious a century or few ago. Marsh gas and sewer gas have been things for millennia.

OgsyedIE

There are occasional stories of this tone for different kinds of terrain: boreal forest, savannah, woodlands, wetlands and so on. Do any firms do work to match existing planning bodies for optimal wilderness land use with all of the current cutting-edge findings or do they stay locked inside the science reporting bubble?

FatherOfCurses

We need a cheap fast way to turn vacant or underutilized commercial property into carbon sinks. Like some way to fill up an empty parking lot at an empty office park or strip mall with portable self-watering containers that contain something like grass or bamboo or de-THC hemp. No need to re-zone anything, just roll up with it while the land is not being used, soak up some carbon, and then move on if the land gets used again.

sillystuff

Water Hyacinths have been used for sewage treatment for quite some time [1]. [1] https://www.spacefoundation.org/space_technology_hal/sewage-...