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Some environmental groups see the United States, the global leader in oil production, as an obstacle to a robust plastics agreement.

Getting rid of single use bags is among the items our throwaway society will have to dispense of to make progress healing the planet.

Millions of health care workers around the globe are calling for world governments to put significant limits on the plastics industry. Representatives of 900 health care civil society groups called for caps on the production of plastics, the restriction of toxic chemicals, and full transparency around what goes into plastics in an open letter Monday.…

A conversation about the risks and potential benefits of re-engineering the climate is urgently needed.

In a pivotal moment for global environmental policy, Ottawa played host to a significant gathering earlier this week.

Such simplifications in judicial decisions risk setting dangerous precedents where policies are shaped not by empirical evidence but by judicial interpretations of contested scientific theories.

Negotiators from 175 nations began talks Tuesday on a proposed global treaty to reduce plastic pollution, which is found everywhere from mountain tops to ocean depths, and in human blood

Delegates from 174 countries are in Ottawa this week for the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution.

Everyone loves trees. When one grew in Brooklyn, it merited a whole book. (Sorta.) Which is part of the appeal of planting trees to reduce ambient carbon dioxide

Negotiators from 175 nations began talks Tuesday to agree a global treaty to reduce plastic pollution, which is found everywhere from mountain tops to ocean depths, and within human blood