Many of the book’s chapters have short stories (shown in brackets) that transport the reader to different times and places.
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THE PAST
Chapter 1: The journey begins (Northern Canada 49 million years ago)
Chapter 2: The North Pole tells its story (Tromsø, northern Norway 7 August 2004)
Chapter 3: Deep Time (Off the coast of Nova Scotia 30 August 1980)
Chapter 4: A Meeting of the Minds (South America 66 million years ago)
Chapter 5: The Burning Land (Northern Scotland 56 million years ago.)
Chapter 6: The Arctic Azolla Event (The Arctic 49 million years ago)
Chapter 7: The Perfect Marriage (The Earth three and a half billion years ago)
Chapter 8: The Azolla Superorganism (Utrecht 8 May 2007)
Chapter 9: The Evolution of a Superorganism (Duke University 2014)
Chapter 10: The Fossil Evidence (Montana May 1805)
Chapter 11: A Superorganism is Born (North America 80 million years ago)
Chapter 12: The Third Event (Chicago 16 June 1957)
FROM DEEP TIME TO OUR TIME
Chapter 13: The East discovers Azolla (Tianluoshan,China, 6900 years ago)
Chapter 14: Worshipped in the east (Northern India 973 years after the birth of the Buddha, 410 AD)
Chapter 15: The West discovers Azolla (Tahiti April 1768)
THE PRESENT
Chapter 16: The Perfect Storm (East Africa October 1999)
Chapter 17: Dead Zones (Tianluoshan, China, the Year of the Pig, 2007)
Chapter 18: Azolla’s purification of water
Chapter 19: Azolla: superorganism or weed? (Lisbon 24 April 1993)
Chapter 20: Azolla as a Biofertilizer
Chapter 21: Azolla as a Livestock Feed
Chapter 22: Saving the mangroves
Chapter 23: Azolla-rice-duck-loach cultivation
Chapter 24: Azolla the Mosquito Fern
Chapter 25: Azolla for food and BMAA mitigation
Chapter 26: The Azolla Germplasm Collection (The Philippines 17 July 2014)
Chapter 27: Cryopreservation of Azolla
Chapter 28: Azolla as a Biofuel (Antwerp 29 September 1913: the unexplained death of Rudolph Diesel)
Chapter 29: Carbon Capture and Storage
Chapter 30: Growing and Harvesting Azolla (Northern India 2019)
Chapter 31: The Azolla Foundation and Hope 4 Ebola Orphans Sierra Leone (The Ebola epidemic, Sierra Leone 2014)
Chapter 32: A man on a mission (Ecuador July 2020)
Chapter 33: Azolla’s role in space (Salyut-6 space station 23 July 1980)
Chapter 34: The Azolla Biosystem
Chapter 35: The Azolla Hub
Chapter 36: The Importance of Nature
Chapter 37: Does it all sound too simple?
THE FUTURE
Chapter 38: A message from the future (The Mackenzie Delta 2120)
Appendix A: Participants of Utrecht University’s 2007 meeting of the DARWIN Azolla Project.
Bibliography (629 references, all with live links to their websites)
Glossary (Definition of 203 terms linked to the text)
Acknowledgements
Dedication