"Plastic is an extremely durable material, taking 500 years to biodegrade, yet it's designed to be used for an average of 5 minutes, and so it's thrown away. Few know where this mass of junk will end ...

A pond in Woodbury has received a boost to its ecosystem with three floating wetland islands anchored into its waters. The BioHaven floating wetlands provide water filtration and cleaning functions, ...

Bruce Kania, right, of Shepherd, owner of Floating Islands International, put more than 20 people on one of his floating islands at his pond in Shepherd recently. The islands, acting as a sort of ...

The islands, acting as a sort of floating filter, are designed to improve water quality with plants that suck up excess nutrients. They also create wildlife habitat, function as small-scale wetlands ...