Bronx Artist Transforms Discarded Plastic Into Playful Sculptures
Daniel Lanzilotta started collecting plastic on the beaches of southern France. While his son played, the Bronx native collected the often tiny fragments of plastic he found in the sand, and soon began pocketing these items and making them into sculptures. Over the course of several years, as fresh debris washed up on the shore every day, he realized what a huge problem plastic pollution is for the environment.
Living Gallery to Help Conserve Mangroves in Singapore
An area will be set aside at the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve coastal trail, for a living gallery of mangrove trees, comprising about half of the true species in the world, in a move to conserve these plants.
South Carolina Braces for Second Round of Flooding
Rivers rose and dams bulged Wednesday as South Carolina faced another anxious day of waiting for the floodwaters to recede.