STORY: Plastic pollution is set to triple by 2040, adding 23-37 million metric tons of waste to the world's oceans each year. Despite that alarming prediction from the United Nations Environment ...

WWF, Greenpeace and Break Free from Plastic delivered almost 3 million signatures from over 180 countries demanding that governments make good on their promise to establish a legally binding global ...

Next week, governments from around the world will meet in Geneva for the final global plastic pollution treaty negotiations (INC-5.2). WWF calls on global governments to explore all available pathways ...

Negotiators from dozens of countries are in Busan, South Korea, trying to hammer out a global treaty to cut down on plastic pollution. It's their last chance before an end-of-year deadline to agree on ...

The day is dedicated to raising awareness for Mother Earth. World Environment Day is celebrated annually on June 5th to remind people that the planet is our home and we should take utmost care of it.

Sarah J. Morath is a board member of The Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability and a member of the Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty. Plastic waste is piling up at a ...

With both plastic production and waste projected to escalate to unmanageable levels by 2050, scientists at UC Santa Barbara and UC Berkeley have launched a new AI-powered online tool that provides ...

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 ...

Scientists have demonstrated a creative solution to plastic pollution, one of our most pressing environmental problems. Plastic was embedded with spores of plastic-eating bacteria that are activated ...

Ahead of the final global plastic pollution treaty negotiations (INC-5.2), WWF is calling for member states to explore all available procedural pathways to get a treaty over the line. World Wildlife ...