Talks to create a UN treaty to end plastics pollution adjourned Monday morning without reaching a conclusion. The talks, which took place in Busan, South Korea, aimed to develop an international ...

"Roughly 71% of our planet is covered by water, and 97% of that is an ocean wrapped around land masses that rise from the sea ...

New York state this week appealed the dismissal of a pollution lawsuit against soda giant PepsiCo, accusing its single-use ...

Nov. 16, 2024 — Clinical visits by patients suffering ocular surface eye conditions more than doubled during times when ambient particulate matter from air pollution was in the atmosphere ...

Plastic pollution is undeniably a problem. Each year, tens of millions of tons of plastic wastes pile up in landfills or—much more problematically—pollute landscapes, waterways, and the oceans.

In 2022, the U.N. General Assembly voted to develop a legally binding international treaty on plastic pollution by 2024. But crafting that treaty hasn’t been easy, with countries butting heads ...

Kenya to leverage its successful ban on plastic bags to lobby for hosting international secretariat in Nairobi.

The key issues of disagreement between the developed and developing world that pushed finalising of the proposed treaty to the next year Listen to Story Treaty on plastic pollution delayed to next ...

The plastics industry continues to dump dangerous chemicals into waterways, as a U.S. federal regulatory agency has failed to update wastewater limits in more than 30 years. According to an article ...

What will it take to, as the report recommends, end plastics pollution by 2040? A group of global leaders, the High Ambition Coalition, established that target. We thought it was a reasonable goal and ...