EU Environment Commissioner Jessika Roswall made a surprising and personal announcement in September: her own blood contains ...

GENEVA (AP) — Negotiations to reach a major treaty to end growing plastic pollution around the world fell apart on Friday, with delegates in Switzerland adjourning with no immediate plans to resume.

The European Parliament on Thursday definitively adopted rules clamping down on pollution from the tiny pellets that ...

Study finds 170 trillion plastic particles in oceans; pollution set to persist for centuries without urgent action ...

The European Union on Thursday approved new measures holding transport and handling firms accountable for spills of plastic ...

With the United States blocking many of the issues that needed to be resolved at the UNEP Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, the Geneva conference ended with little results. Following 10 days of ...

At first glance, the tiny plastic pellets appear relatively harmless. No bigger than a lentil, these "nurdles" are destined ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

Scientists warn that plastic pollution has reached every corner of Earth — from ocean trenches to human bloodstreams — signaling a slow-moving crisis that rivals climate change in scale.

Workers use razor blades to scrape off labels from different soft-drink plastic bottles at the Street Waste Company in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Aug 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) GENEVA (AP) — ...