The world’s nations will wrap up negotiating a treaty this weekend to address the global crisis of plastic pollution.

Diplomats warned Saturday that a majority of countries could walk away from talks on the world's first plastic pollution ...

The U.S. is among 175 nations haggling over a treaty to reduce the vast quantity of plastic pollution that ends up in our ...

Negotiators working on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution have inched closer to an agreement, with ...

Very little of the world's plastic waste—about half of which comes from single-use plastics such as packaging, straws and ...

Representatives from 175 countries are urgently negotiating a legally binding treaty to curb plastic pollution.

Leaders from around the world have gathered in Busan, South Korea this week in hopes of finally striking a global treaty to reduce the world’s growing level of plastic pollution. Negotiations ...

Diplomats warned on Saturday that a majority of countries could walk away from talks on the world's first plastic pollution ...

Her research uses a social-ecological approach to focus on the global challenge of plastic pollution. A black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus) forages in a swamp polluted with plastic and ...

But critics say focusing nearly exclusively on recycling exaggerates the effect that can have and distracts from more fundamental solutions to plastic pollution. “We have to stop making so much ...

The final round of negotiations taking place in South Korea for a worldwide plastics treaty will look to rapidly cut surging plastic pollution. But oil and gas interests could scupper a deal.