Matching Phyto Species to Contaminants

Matching Phyto Species to Contaminants

Ron Zalensky, a contributor to Phyto: Principles and Resources for Site Remediation and Landscape, is a member of a research team that has developed a new contaminant prioritization tool that has the potential to increase the effectiveness of environmental approaches...
India’s 1 Million Trees Phytoremediation Project

India’s 1 Million Trees Phytoremediation Project

By the end of 2020, Fiinovation aims to plant 1 million trees in a phytoremediation-based initiative called Ecotopia. Trees will be used combat the effects of rapid industrialization and urbanization; absorb greenhouse gases, increase evaporation and transpiration,...
Superfund, Meet Super Plants

Superfund, Meet Super Plants

Plant microbiologist Sharon Doty is using microbes naturally associated with Poplar to increase success of phytoremediation efforts....

Phytomining in the New York Times

“What if, as a partial substitute to traditional, energy-intensive and environmentally costly mining and smelting, the world harvested nickel plants?” Read the New York Times article here