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Deadlocked plastic treaty talks will lead to renewed negotiations in 2025
Charles Pekow
10 Dec 2024
Thousands of chemicals from food packaging found in humans, a major study reveals
Rita Aksenfeld
25 Nov 2024
Plastic pollution pushing Earth past all nine planetary boundaries: Report
Alden Wicker
25 Nov 2024
Microplastics are sickening and killing wildlife, disrupting Earth systems
Sharon Guynup
21 Nov 2024
The plastics crisis is now a global human health crisis, experts say
Alden Wicker
19 Nov 2024
How ‘waste colonialism’ underpins Asia’s plastic problem (commentary)
Coleen Salamat
18 Nov 2024
U.S. toughens stance on plastics production in run-up to key treaty summit
Charles Pekow
5 Nov 2024
Studies identify microplastics contamination along entire Brazilian coastline
Luís Patriani
23 Oct 2024
Bangladesh’s new government implements strong measures to eliminate single-use plastic
Abu Siddique
2 Oct 2024
What will the Brazilian food industry do about plastic packaging?
Ellen Nemitz
19 Sep 2024
Biden-Harris Administration must strengthen position on plastic reduction treaty (commentary)
Tim Grabiel
27 Aug 2024
Most ‘compostable’ bioplastics are anything but, says new report
Alden Wicker
31 Jul 2024
Saving Lake Victoria from plastic: Interview with Kenya’s teenage Muchilwa siblings
Juliet Akoth Ojwang
31 Jul 2024
Can the circular economy help the Caribbean win its war against waste?
Sandra Weiss
20 May 2024
Scientists explore nature’s promise in combating plastic waste
Claire Asher
8 May 2024
As plastic talks wrap up in Canada, fishers in Indonesia count the costs
Falahi Mubarok, Yogi Eka Sahputra
8 May 2024
At its fourth summit, 170 nations strive toward a global plastics treaty by 2025
Charles Pekow
7 May 2024
Plastic pollution talks end & Arctic peoples return home to a ‘sink’ of plastic
Sonam Lama Hyolmo
7 May 2024
Bioplastics as toxic as regular plastics; both need regulation, say researchers
Alden Wicker
22 Apr 2024
Pollution poses big risks to global clean water supplies, study shows
Sean Mowbray
6 Mar 2024
New AI model helps detect and identify microplastics in wastewater
Abhishyant Kidangoor
16 Jan 2024
As the world swims in plastic, some offer an answer: Ban the toxic two
Alden Wicker
2 Jan 2024
In 2023, Mongabay’s reporting fellows covered Earth amid crisis — and hope
Karen Coates
27 Dec 2023
Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran & petrochemical industry stall plastics treaty: Critics
Charles Pekow
22 Nov 2023
Circular economy poised to go beyond outdated oil, gas and coal, experts say
Sean Mowbray
16 Nov 2023
Beyond Climate: Fossil fuels rapidly eroding Earth’s ‘safe operating space’
Sean Mowbray
15 Nov 2023
Beyond climate: Oil, gas and coal are destabilizing all 9 planetary boundaries
Sean Mowbray
14 Nov 2023
Microplastics pose risk to ocean plankton, climate, other key Earth systems
Claire Asher
9 Oct 2023
Up in the air: Study finds microplastics in high-altitude cloud water
Elizabeth Claire Alberts
5 Oct 2023
Rolling car tires into the global circular economy
Sean Mowbray
21 Aug 2023
Plastic ‘Frankenrocks’ pose new pollution threat to coastal environment
Basten Gokkon
2 Aug 2023
The endless struggle to clean up Rio de Janeiro’s highly polluted Guanabara Bay
Andrew Johnson
1 Aug 2023
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