This Thursday marks World Environment Day, an annual awareness day born out of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It’s the largest global platform for environmental outreach, and this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The final round of global talks aimed at ending plastic pollution opened in South Korea Monday, although optimism was low among ...

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Once again, global negotiations to secure a treaty to end plastic pollution have ended without agreement, after two weeks of talks in Geneva exposed irreconcilable divisions between ...

Close to 200 nations from across the globe were expecting to begin this month with full knowledge of the world's first-ever plan to "end plastic pollution," however, the UN's aspirations of striking a ...

When you woke up this morning, you did not breakfast on a plate of plastics, and rightly so. Your body is likely to have plastic in it anyway – microplastics, which have been found in the arteries, ...

(Bloomberg) -- The final round of United Nations-brokered talks aimed at tackling plastic pollution opened in South Korea with deep divisions over the need to stem the rising flood of the material, a ...

Plastic is a useful everyday item but has grown to become a global problem. Every year the world produces over 460 million tonnes of plastic, [1] 90% of which pollutes almost all areas of our planet, ...

Scientists and theologians are calling for an end to unethical and immoral “unchecked increases in plastic production,” they write in a Declaration produced during the conference "Joining Science and ...

GENEVA -- Negotiations on a global treaty to end plastic pollution drew to a close Thursday, as nations remain deadlocked over whether to tackle the exponential growth of plastic production. A draft ...

Plastic waste is projected to triple by 2060, with its use known to impact health and cause damage. It is a topic for world leaders meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, who this week have been discussing a ...