A new round of negotiations for an international treaty on reducing global plastics pollution will be held in Geneva in ...

Over 500 million straws are used every day ... plastic pollution problem. Plastic bags have a very high cost to the environment. As a result many cities and countries from around the world have ...

This is why World Environment Day 2024 focuses ... exposure to air pollution beyond safe guidelines will increase by 50 per cent within the decade and plastic waste flowing into aquatic ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. Here's more about the larger fight over ...

To end the plastic crisis, the UN plastic pollution treaty must introduce new global binding rules to regulate production and consumption. These rules must include measures to ban, phase-out, ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

The IAEA is working with experts from all over the world to change that fate and protect marine life and the environment from plastic pollution. With its partners, the IAEA is researching and ...

Despite efforts to reduce the use of plastic, research has found that it is still the most common form of litter that ends up in marine environments. Plastic accounts for 79 per cent of litter in ...

The environment is littered with single-use plastic food and beverage containers — water bottles, takeout containers, coffee lids, straws and shopping bags. Every year, the world produces more ...