Talks to finalize the world’s first treaty on plastic pollution in Geneva, Switzerland collapsed in failure Friday as countries remained bitterly divided how to tackle the crisis. The summit, held at ...

Plastic pollution is choking the planet. From the bottom of the Mariana trench to the top of Mount Everest, there is little escaping the problem. Regardless, treaty negotiations to end plastic ...

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Diplomats from around the world concluded nine days of talks in Geneva—plus a marathon overnight session that ...

Delegates from nearly every country gathered in Canada this week to hammer out the details of a global treaty to address ballooning plastic pollution. One source of division at the summit, which ...

Lehigh University’s Polymer Science & Engineering Department is marking its 50th anniversary with a full-day educational ...

Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the millions ...

A global U.N. summit on plastics ended in Busan, South Korea, early this morning without a much-anticipated treaty after fossil fuel companies and oil-rich countries refused to agree to limit plastic ...