Doctors warn of three factors driving young people's colon cancersMicroscopic pieces of plastic in the air we breathe and the ...

Members of the public created almost 70 artworks earlier this year to highlight plastic pollution. Surveys led by volunteers say more than half of items found are also from an unknown origin.

Environmental activists protest outside the venue for the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution in Busan, South Korea, on Sunday. AHN YOUNG-JOON / AP ...

Above: WWF's Erin Simon speaks at the global plastic pollution summit in Busan, Korea, in November. The final week of November could have been the turning point in the global fight against plastic ...

Environmental groups on Sunday decried the conclusion of a United Nations summit designed to secure an international treaty to combat plastic pollution after powerful oil- and gas-producing nations ...

Busan (South Korea) (AFP) – Deeply divided negotiators failed on Sunday to reach a landmark global treaty to curb plastic pollution, missing a self-imposed deadline, and agreed to extend their ...

Plastic pollution is so ubiquitous that microplastics have been found on the highest mountain peak, in the deepest ocean trench and scattered throughout almost every part of the human body.

BUSAN, South Korea — Negotiators working on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution for a week in South Korea won’t reach an agreement and plan to resume the talks next year.

In March 2022, at the resumed fifth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2), a historic resolution was adopted to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, ...

5, 2018. The U.N. Environment Assembly (UNEA) unanimously voted Wednesday, March 2, 2022 in Nairobi, Kenya to start to create a legally binding global treaty to address plastic pollution in the ...

Plastic pollution poses multifaceted threats to human health, the environment and the economy. From production to disposal, plastic is one of the planet’s most carbon-intensive industries ...