Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bird floats among discarded plastic bottles in the Sava River in Belgrade, Serbia, in 2024. (Darko Vojinovic / Associated Press) ...

Food packaging ranks among the top plastic pollutants littering the world’s coastlines, a new study confirms. The study, ...

Plastic pollution is choking the ocean, but sustainable alternatives - including seaweed - remain held back by tariffs, ...

In the two decades to 2019, global plastic production doubled. By 2040, plastic manufacturing and processing could consume as much as 20% of global oil production and use up 15% of the annual carbon ...

An international agreement to end plastic pollution is due to be sealed this year in Busan, South Korea. At the penultimate round of negotiations, held in Ottawa, Canada, Rwanda and Peru proposed a ...

GENEVA (AP) — Negotiations on a global treaty to end plastic pollution are drawing to a close Thursday, as nations remain deadlocked over whether to tackle the exponential growth of plastic production ...

Busan, South Korea — As plastics treaty negotiators try to reach a deal, more than 85 nations — including all 27 members of the European Union — made a last-minute push to include caps on plastic ...

Negotiations are underway in Geneva on a legally binding Global Plastics Treaty that has been in the works for several years, as the crisis of pollution from plastics worldwide has grown more acute.

The spike in oil prices caused by the conflict in the Middle East has offered a difficult lesson in the reliance that ...

Flames shoot out across an area bigger than a football field, and the glare can be seen in the sky for miles. The sound is like hundreds of thousands of gas burners in concert, and a terrible smell ...

Ottawa, Ontario — The debate over resin production caps is again surfacing in the plastics treaty talks as environmental groups and allied countries renew a push for them while plastics companies and ...