Plastic pollution impacts all planetary boundaries, affecting the environment and health on a global scale. Researchers call ...

Ahead of the UN treaty talks in Busan, South Korea, the study underscores the urgency of reaching an agreement on how to ...

Plastic pollution affects fundamental Earth systems, contributing to almost every pressing global environmental challenge.

UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double ...

Researchers say just four policies could cut plastic pollution 90 percent by 2050. With no action, plastic waste could nearly ...

Plastic pollution exacerbates the impacts of all planetary boundaries, including climate change, ocean acidification and biodiversity loss, a new paper shows. Ahead of the final negotiations of the ...

A new study determines that just four policies can reduce mismanaged plastic waste -- plastic that isn't recycled or properly disposed of and ends up as pollution -- by 91% and plastic-related ...

Regulations imposed to protect the environment may continue to have impacts even after they are repealed. And those lingering ...

Think back to the last time you were in a hospital. How much plastic did you see? Doctors and nurses use a lot of plastic ...

The uniform adoption of just four waste management policies around the world could eliminate more than 90 percent of the ...

Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui by the locals, is a remote island off the coast of Chile. As of 2023, its population ...