The United States is urging countries to reject a global treaty aimed at limiting plastic production and chemical additives, ...

After a failed attempt to finalize a global plastics treaty last year in Busan, South Korea, representatives from 170 ...

GENEVA/WASHINGTON - The United States has sent letters to at least a handful of countries urging them to reject the goal of a ...

Plastics are everywhere—they're even in you right now—and are making many of us sick. Now, global negotiators are fighting over whether that matters.

Countries are negotiating key measures to tackle plastic pollution, including setting targets to cut single-use plastic ...

Nations kicked off a meeting on Tuesday to try to complete a landmark treaty aimed at ending the plastic pollution crisis that affects every ecosystem and person on the planet.

The exponential growth in plastic is damaging ecosystems, the climate and human health. Why is reducing production so hard?

Representatives from 184 countries have launched UN-led negotiations in Geneva to draft the first global treaty to combat ...

U.N. negotiators have 10 days to craft a global plastic treaty. Environmental advocates say reaching an agreement to cap ...