(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 ...

The French government on Dec 30 postponed a ban on plastic throwaway cups by four years to 2030 because of difficulties ...

World Environment Day, celebrated on June 5 each year since the United Nations established it in 1974, is not Earth Day, which started as a grassroots movement and environmental teach-in on April 22, ...

The world creates 57 million tons of plastic pollution every year and spreads it from the deepest oceans to the highest mountaintop to the inside of people's bodies, according to a new study that also ...

I first travelled to the Arctic Circle in 2013 after a biologist friend told me about a small village in Greenland under attack by polar bears. The iconic animals hunt seals on ice, which is now ...

If the world embarked on an immediate and globally-coordinated effort to reduce our plastic consumption, there would still be an estimated 710 million metric tons of plastic that will pollute the ...

LONDON (Reuters/CBS Newspath/WKRC) - The world’s first food made from plastic waste, according to its developer, is vanilla ice cream. Despite being locked in a freezer in London she hopes it ...

Did you know there are five plastic islands floating in our oceans, and the biggest one — The Great Pacific Garbage Patch — is more than twice the size of Texas? It’s floating halfway between ...

After years of largely neglecting the buildup of plastic waste in Earth’s environment, the U.N. Environment Assembly will meet in February and March in the hopes of drafting the first international ...

Today, WWF and the Plastic Smart Cities community, celebrate World Cities Day by reaffirming their commitment to no plastic in nature by 2030, and calling on more cities around the world to take ...

All of the defining images of the coronavirus pandemic seem to feature one thing: plastic. Surgical masks, gloves, protective equipment, body bags – the Covid-19 crisis has spurred a rapid expansion ...