Can plastic bottles be recycled, or rather up-cycled, to make boats? The beaches of Kenya’s idyllic Lamu island are dotted with traditional Swahili stone and coral houses, mansions built by ...

On a boat off Costa Rica, a biologist uses pliers from a Swiss army knife to try to extract a plastic straw from a sea turtle’s nostril. The turtle writhes in agony, bleeding profusely.

Some 8 million tons of plastic trash leak into the ocean annually ... plastic trash sitting on the runway awaiting collection by boats is evidence of that. But it's almost impossible because ...

In Singapore, a group of volunteers are encouraging people to turn plastic bottles into mini floating gardens, known as chinampas. It's a modern spin on an ancient farming technique originating ...

In the case of the Hong Kong-based autonomous boat startup ... the extent of the plastic pollution crisis first hand. “We were on the beach and we saw these guys go out into the water and ...