The UN's environment chief insists that a landmark global treaty tackling plastic pollution remains achievable, despite talks twice imploding without agreement, and the chair suddenly resigning this ...

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A PARTICULARLY alarming environmental threat right now is plastic pollution. Plastic debris is not limited to the shores of the Mediterranean, the Atlantic or the Pacific. Trillions of plastic waste ...

A giant art sculpture showing a tap outpouring plastic bottles, each of which was picked up in the neighborhood of Kibera, during the UNEA held at the U.N. UNEP headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya ...

Plastic pollution is everywhere—including where you would least expect it, especially when it's in tiny particle form. Today, scientists are working to measure the consequences of this contamination.

The UN’s environment chief insists that a landmark global treaty tackling plastic pollution remains achievable. The UN’s environment chief insists that a landmark global treaty tackling plastic ...

Career diplomat Julio Cordano was elected by countries meeting in Geneva following a drawn-out battle. Countries on Saturday elected Chile’s COP climate summit chief negotiator to drive forward ...

Countries on Saturday elected Chile's COP climate summit chief negotiator to revive stalled talks on striking a landmark global treaty tackling the scourge of plastic pollution. "Plastic pollution is ...