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 ...

“Nature sometimes isn’t pretty,” said University of Maryland environmental scientist Peter May, grabbing a clump of slimy green-brown gunk. That gunk lines the bottom of what’s called an algal turf ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...