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Plastic pollution is a scourge of land and seas, and has reached Earth’s remotest regions1. Failure to deal with it could mean exposing ecosystems and people…

The UK risks being shut out of a historic oceans summit because parliament has failed to ratify the UN’s high seas treaty, environmental charities and campaigners…

The Trump administration’s long-anticipated decision this week to pull the US from the world’s most important climate treaty may have been illegal, some experts say.“In my…

Donald Trump has sparked outrage by announcing the US will exit the foundational international agreement to address the climate crisis, cementing the US’s utter isolation from…

CLIMATEWIRE | President Donald Trump is withdrawing the United States from the world’s overarching treaty on climate change in a move that escalates his attempts to…

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Paris climate treaty, one of the landmark days in climate-action history. Attending the conference as a journalist, I watched…

When the United Nations negotiations on plastic pollution in Geneva, Switzerland, collapsed in August, observers declared the outcome an abject failure and the process broken. Earlier…

Plastics overwhelmingly end up in the ocean or at landfill sites.Credit: Salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB/LightRocket/GettyIn August, the world should have been celebrating the first global agreement to end…

Fifteen French and UK human rights organisations are calling for the suspension of the controversial “one in, one out” treaty in a legal challenge that has…

Global consumption of plastics is on the rise, but only a small percentage of plastic waste is recycled. Credit: Justin Sullivan/GettyCrucial negotiations on what would have…