BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - The safety of a beloved children’s toy, water beads, has come under scrutiny, leading to a nationwide recall. Over the years, these tiny, vibrant orbs have been the ...

Water hyacinth, an aquatic plant native to South America, has gained popularity as a natural filter for backyard koi ponds and water features. Unfortunately, this invasive plant does a lot more ...

The name might sound complicated but put simply hydroponics is a system of growing plants indoors without soil, using ...

Water-absorbing beads have become increasingly hazardous to children over the past 10 years, as children who swallow the ...

Moreover, water availability in the soil ... the researchers observed higher concentrations of nitrogen in plant tissue growing in soil with polyamide beads, which is a plastic polymer that ...

How Yorba Linda does it: There are 22 tanks that are packed half-full with a kind of resin — special polymer beads — that ...

The tiny, malleable plastic beads were once considered a ... However, they had to alter the plant fiber to make it dissolvable in water. Cellulose is normally a very stable material — "otherwise ...

Plants can be of different sizes, shapes and colours and they can grow in soil like sunflowers or in water like water lilies. But no matter what they look like or where they are, most plants grow ...

After four weeks of no measurable rainfall in Greater Boston, you might be wondering how this lack of precipitation has been ...