Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The committee’s goal was to finalize such an international treaty last year, but negotiations have stalled, with multiple ...

Plastic use should be the exception, not the rule. We can solve the problem of plastic before it kills us, and creation. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic nurdles at the beach in Sri Lanka. (NurPhoto via Getty Images) Britain has banned everything from plastic straws to ...

Reducing plastic use this year should be on everyone’s radar, although it won’t be easy. According to the United Nations, “humanity produces over 430 million tonnes of plastic every year – two-thirds ...

Sir: For more than half a century, June 5th has marked World Environment Day (WED). This initiative by the United Nations, in collaboration with key stakeholders, aims at spotlighting critical ...

How did toxic plastics become so pervasive? How do they endanger our health? And what can we do to address this crisis? Hear from Judith Enck, founder of Beyond Plastics. How did toxic plastics become ...

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You brush twice daily, floss religiously and see your dentist every six months. But what if these acts of oral hygiene are quietly contributing to one of the planet's most pressing environmental ...

Have you ever stopped to think about what happens to those little orange pill bottles after you finish your prescription? Every year, around 200 billion of these bottles are produced worldwide, and ...

Our home is not as old as Dick Van Dyke, but does share a birth year with Chuck Norris (1940), which means it will probably last forever by sheer determination, stalwart character and a heaping ...