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, ...

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 ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. In 2015, video of a marine biologist ...

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 ...

Small island nations like Fiji, despite contributing the least to plastic pollution, suffer its worst impacts. Global ocean plastics, projected to double to 300 million tonnes by 2040, further ...

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 ...