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The United Nations Environment Assembly decided to initiate negotiations on a global agreement to end plastic pollution at its meeting in Nairobi o...

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When Allen Ottaro grew up in Nakuru on the foothills of the Mau Forest complex about 100 miles west of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, the region ex...

An international team of scientists wrote a letter to the journal Science asserting that recycling is not a long-term solution to the growing sea of plastics polluting our soil, river, oceans, the air we breathe and even our bloodstreams and lungs. The scientists argued that the production of plastics must not only be regulated, but capped and phased out in the long-term.

One of the major challenges of implementing a global agreement on plastic is the lack of economy-wide taxes or obligations to structurally reduce the consumption of plastic

WITH the rising concern on microplastic pollution, a group of international experts, including from Malaysia, are studying the source of these pollutants in this part of the world.

Apr 20, 2022 // Science diplomacy will be key to navigating statecraft and security challenges in our evolving frontiers—the Arctic, high seas, and outer space—but Russia's recent hostility complicates matters.

While the world moves towards better management of plastics waste, you and I have our individual parts to play too.

A key meeting in Nairobi this month will determine the course of global action on plastics, but countries are split over differing proposals

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