As final negotiations for an international plastics treaty get underway this week in Busan, South Korea, scientists warn that the global plastics crisis is far more dangerous than previously thought.

Plastic pollution remains one of the world’s most challenging environmental problems. Plastic pollution has been found everywhere on Earth, from the highest mountain peaks to the deepest parts of the ...

What long-term threats does plastic pollution have on the Earth, and specifically marine life? This is what a recent study published in Nature Sustainability hopes to address as a team of scientists ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — On Earth Day 2025, Arkansas researchers are calling attention to the growing plastic pollution crisis and urging a multi-tiered approach to reduce the environmental and health ...

Plastic pollution in Madagascar Mouenthias via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 If you organized the plastic pollution that entered the environment in 2020 in a line, it could circle the Earth ...

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. With only 3 women left, ...

GENEVA (AP) — A Swiss ocean protection group is handing out bars of soap to negotiators working on a global accord to end plastic pollution. The messaging on the cardboard box from the Geneva-based ...