INC-5 - the fifth and final round of negotiations for a treaty aimed at ending plastic pollution - is a critical opportunity ...

Plastic pollution affects fundamental Earth systems, contributing to almost every pressing global environmental challenge.

As a mother, and as a conservationist who has spent the last 18 years dedicated to ending plastic pollution’s chokehold on ...

UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen highlights the significance of the final round of negotiations on a legally binding ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double ...

At a time when synthetic plastic has polluted nearly every corner of the globe and appeared in food and in the human body, ...

Amid the elections in the United States and policy debates, a pressing issue that may not receive as much attention as the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on ...

Our study highlights how extensive plastic pollution is—and how other living things, including dolphins, are exposed. While the impacts of plastic inhalation on dolphins' lungs are not yet known ...

“While the impacts of these ocean plastics on the environment, fishing and tourism are well documented, methods for measuring ...

Even for the most conscious consumers, it can be a challenge to identify plastic in our everyday lives ... adding to waste pollution, and the true impacts of the pollution and waste caused by ...

Plastic waste creates fertile grounds for disease-carrying pests, exacerbating malaria rates, which are already high across ...

WWF warns that unless governments get serious in streamlining processes and agreeing on making specific core measures globally mandatory¹, world leaders will not be able to deliver on their promise ...