The negative consequences of plastic are everywhere and affect everyone. Microplastics are now found throughout our bodies, ...

Countries on Saturday elected Chile's COP climate summit chief negotiator to revive stalled talks on striking a landmark ...

Negotiators will take another stab at reaching a global pact on plastic pollution at talks opening Tuesday in Geneva but they face deep divisions over how to tackle the health and ecological hazard.

SEOUL — South Korea talks tough on plastic, but hesitates when it comes to binding global rules. At UN-led treaty negotiations in Geneva this summer, Seoul drew fire for resisting stronger measures to ...

Representatives from 184 countries began negotiations on Tuesday at the UN headquarters in Geneva to draft, within ten days, the first global treaty aimed at reducing plastic pollution that threatens ...

Pusan National University said on Monday its researchers have developed a water-treatment method that removes microscopic ...

GENEVA (AP) — As nations began a second week of negotiations Monday for a global accord to end plastic pollution, an artist heaped piles of plastic waste onto a large sculpture in front of the United ...

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Nations kicked off a meeting on Tuesday to try to complete a landmark treaty aimed at ending the plastic pollution crisis that affects every ecosystem and person on the planet. Climate change worsened ...

Chile’s Julio Cordano has been elected as the new Chair of UN Global Plastic Treaty negotiations after talks collapsed last ...

GENEVA — Talks on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution in Geneva ended without an agreement Friday as the session was adjourned with plans to resume at a later date. Nations ...

Long ignored, plastic pollution has now become a scourge sparing no corner of the globe. It ravages the planet in myriad ways: Every minute, the equivalent of a garbage truck full of plastic waste is ...