A meeting of an intergovernmental negotiating committee was expected to resume in Geneva on Tuesday to formulate an international treaty to prevent pollution by plastic waste.

A towering replica of Rodin's "The Thinker" will gradually be engulfed in plastic waste outside the UN headquarters as global ...

By Olivia Le Poidevin and Valerie Volcovici GENEVA (Reuters) -Hopes for a "last-chance" ambitious global treaty to curb ...

STORY: Plastic pollution is set to triple by 2040, adding 23-37 million metric tons of waste to the world's oceans each ...

A replica of Auguste Rodin's famous sculpture "The Thinker" outside the United Nations headquarters was being slowly ...

As U.N. plastics treaty negotiations resume in Geneva, industry and scientists release dueling research over whether health ...

The plastic pollution crisis is costing the U.S. some $1.5 trillion in health-related costs every year – and the threat is ...

By Olivia Le Poidevin and Valerie Volcovici GENEVA (Reuters) -Hopes for a "last chance" ambitious global treaty to curb ...

A new review warns that plastic pollution is causing disease and death from infancy to old age, costing $1.5 trillion annually in health damages.

The Lancet report on plastic comes as scientists are warning about the dangers of microplastics found in brain tissue and ...

While the Trump administration sides with the petrochemical industry, it is time for ordinary people to speak up about ...

Almost three and a half years since the adoption of UN Environment Assembly Resolution 5/14, the world is on the brink of agreeing a historic instrument to end plastic pollution.