They may be convenient for some, but plastic products pose an immense problem when they end up polluting oceans around the ...

To find out how destructive negligence and indifference are, it is enough to move between Hawaii and California and see the ...

Researchers found marine fungi capable of breaking down plastic. They tested fungi from Hawai‘i’s nearshore waters.

As crews work to remove potentially hundreds of thousands of tons of hazardous materials from the Los Angeles wildfires, ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. Here's more about the larger fight over ...

Across Thailand, much of East Asia and the Pacific, worsening air pollution is not only choking cities but also taking a vast toll on public health. Air pollution is one of the most pressing, yet ...

Air pollution kills 100 children younger than age five every day in East Asia and the Pacific, UNICEF said in a new report on Thursday. Air pollution, the “silent killer,” reaches its highest ...

Naming it a “silent killer”, the UN body said over 100 daily deaths of children under five are linked to air pollution in East Asia and the Pacific. In a statement released today, February 6, the ...

The Pacific region confronts unique challenges in managing plastic pollution due to geographic isolation, limited waste management infrastructure, and reliance on tourism. While their contributions ...

Some 500 million children in East Asia and the Pacific live with unhealthy levels of air pollution, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said today. Geneva.- Ninety-one percent of them live in ...