By Alden Wicker “Plastics pollution exacerbates the impacts of all [nine] planetary boundaries,” warns a report published ...

Leaders from around the world have gathered in Busan, South Korea this week in hopes of finally striking a global treaty to reduce the world’s growing level of plastic pollution. Negotiations ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double by 2050. But in a study published in the journal Science, these same ...

Countries have deadlocked on a United Nations treaty on plastic pollution, according to The Associated Press. The treaty, ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

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 ...

Negotiators were working on a treaty to address global plastic pollution crisis. BUSAN, South Korea -- Negotiators working on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution for a week ...

Plastic pollution is choking the planet. From the bottom of the Mariana trench to the top of Mount Everest, there is little ...

On day 5 of the fifth session of the INC5, the negotiations in Busan have been marred by polarised views on plastic ...

"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 ...