And we are now facing an accelerating threat that transcends borders and puts everyone in harm's way. To end the plastic crisis, the UN plastic pollution treaty must introduce new global binding rules ...

The world can adapt to reduce and even eliminate plastic pollution, and this needs to be driven by collaboration between governments, businesses, and consumers. All three have a crucial role to ...

It is essential that any technologies designed to remove plastic pollution from the environment are properly evaluated before they are deployed to ensure they are effective and there are no ...

The IAEA is working with experts from all over the world to change that fate and protect marine life and the environment from plastic pollution. With its partners, the IAEA is researching and ...

Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world’s oceans, rivers, and lakes. Plastic pollution is a global problem. Every year 19-23 million tonnes of ...

testosteroni’s ability to break down plastic. Though the bacteria are promising tools for combating pollution, they are not ...

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order ending a US government effort to replace plastic straws with paper. The order, which takes effect immediately, reverses a measure signed by ...

Check out our guide to below and join the Blue Planet Live Lesson on Tuesday 26th March, which will investigate plastic pollution, sustainability and the effects of climate change on our oceans.

Japan and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) have partnered to advance Fiji’s circular economy by ...

Behind these alarming studies stands a seemingly unstoppable juggernaut of plastic production. The annual global production of plastics reportedly grew nearly two hundredfold between 1950 (2 ...

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

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. Here's more about the larger fight over ...