After seeing the pain caused by a plastic straw becoming lodged in a sea turtle's nose, a global call to action was made to ban them.

A global agreement to reduce both the manufacture and consumption of plastic has been in the works since a 2022 but progress ...

UNESCO and Plastic Odyssey have announced a new strategic partnership to address the escalating crisis of plastic pollution ...

The ocean is under siege – and greed is to blame. UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday urged world leaders and grassroots groups to confront the powerful interests driving marine ...

Behind closed doors, in a domed conference pavilion steps away from the historic port of Nice, more than 40 ministers gathered on Tuesday to tackle one of the planet’s fastest-growing environmental ...

Today, at the third UN Ocean Conference, and ahead of the upcoming UN Plastic Treaty negotiations (INC 5.2), co-host France and more than 90 countries issued a “wake up call” ...

Volta Region residents have lamented the plastic waste crisis in the area, saying that pollution threatened the environment ...

as well as ocean pollution that often originates as land trash. Why they matter: Known as the lawnmowers of the ocean, green sea turtles eat seagrass that would otherwise grow rampant ...

Hence, the ongoing high-level United Nations Ocean Conference, co-hosted by France and Costa Rica in Nice, France, stands as a pivotal platform for advocating further and urgent actions to conserve ...

The third United Nations Ocean Conference is opening as pressure mounts for nations to turn decades of promises into real ...

The Prince of Wales also returned to the fold after taking a break for half term, visiting the Army Air Corps (ACC) in ...

UNEP’s Inger Andersen urges global action on World Environment Day 2025 to end plastic pollution via circular solutions, ...