As final global plastics treaty negotiations take place in Geneva, The Lancet elevates plastic pollution as a grave, global ...

Lancet study reveals plastic pollution causes serious human health problems from factory production to waste disposal.

The second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally ...

Talks last year in South Korea were supposed to be the final round, but they adjourned in December at an impasse over cutting ...

Ahead of the expected finalization of a UN global plastics treaty, a group of international experts calls for a greater focus ...

Wells (@dwallacewells), a writer for Opinion and a columnist for The New York Times Magazine, is the author of “The ...

In the study, which appeared in the journal One Earth, the scientists say that with plastic production projected to triple by 2060, "the most cost-effective and efficient way to prevent further ...