Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic ...

Plastic pollution harms marine life and ecosystems. Discover easy ways to cut plastic waste and join the call for a global ...

Plastic waste pollutes our oceans, food, even our bodies. This week, 175 countries are trying to create a treaty to reduce that waste. Nations such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, who produce fossil fuels ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Global negotiations to address plastic pollution collapsed in Geneva, Switzerland, last August after ...

Some 170 trillion pieces of plastic are floating on the planet’s oceans — and scientists revealed for the first time that it could take more than century for them sink or disappear, even if we stopped ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BUSAN, South Korea (AP) — Negotiations on a ...

Single-use plastic pollution is a public health concern, as much as it’s about clean beaches and the safety of ocean animals. The Health Department should be pulling alongside Environment Minister ...

A last round of negotiations on a legally binding treaty to address the global scourge of plastic pollution has opened in Busan, South Korea. Here’s what to know about it: National delegations still ...