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UNEP Executive Director, Inger Andersen emphasizes the urgent need for multilateral action to tackle climate change, ...

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Business Waste used the latest studies to create shocking images that illustrate how high levels of microplastic exposure can negatively affect the human body — including your appearance.

As dismissal bells rang and a light mist began to fall on the students playing pickup football in front of River Oaks Elementary School Tuesday afternoon, three students continued their work indoors.

Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have, for the first time, provided concrete figures on the abrasion of mountain ...

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In recent months, in response to increased consumer interest, federal and state government officials have taken action to propose and adopt laws ...

Picture this: you're lounging on a beautiful beach, soaking up the sun and listening to the soothing sound of the waves. You ...

There is growing concern that plastics may also be responsible for significant harm to the earth’s environment and human ...

As global negotiations on a binding plastic pollution treaty stall, individual countries are stepping up their efforts to ...

Microplastics have been found in unborn cats, proving that plastic pollution can reach fetal tissues early in pregnancy.