Negotiations toward a global, legally binding plastics treaty are set to resume this summer, with the United Nations ...

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This brief assesses the health and air pollution benefits of reducing the global marine fuel sulfur limit from 0.5% to 0.1%, ...

Washing plastic in dishwashers raises the release of microplastics into the environment, which poses a human health risk, a ...

Research from the NIH’s National Cancer Institute, an agency beleaguered by funding cuts and censorship, finds that ...

Urban pollution has emerged as one of the most critical environmental and public health challenges in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) ...

Plastic pollution poses a severe health crisis, infiltrating bodies with harmful chemicals, urging immediate action for public health protection.

The report caps a two-year-long research review by a team of 16 scientists that focused on pollution patterns in two ...

The study found widespread microplastic pollution across some Appalachian streams, which poses ecological and public health ...

African countries, including South Africa, have limited waste infrastructure and uneven water treatment systems, which ...