On Thursday, Dalhousie University professor Tony Walker will virtually meet with the UN Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC). The committee is in its sixth round of talks over an ...

Countries gather from Aug. 5 to 14, with hopes of finalizing and passing a legally binding global agreement Plastic waste is littered across the beach of Costa del Este, in Panama City, in April 2021.

The MSC ELSA-3 shipwreck, off Kerala’s coast in southern India, spilled oil and plastic pellets, with potential impacts on marine life, coastal ecosystems and fishing livelihoods. Gaps in maritime law ...

It was a year of growing challenges as well as comeback stories in the Great Lakes. While Detroit welcomed a large new park, ...

Scientists have estimated that there are nearly 200 trillion pieces floating in the world's oceans, and this could triple if no action is taken. In 2022, countries agreed to develop a legally binding ...

Two garbage trucks of plastic hit the ocean every minute. Microplastics are in your brain. Recycling doesn’t work. What the ...

Nobody wants plastic pollution. That doesn’t mean poorly considered and heavy-handed governmental actions are the solution. This includes misguided single-use plastic bans (e.g., bans on plastic ...

Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the millions ...

Imagine a world where the air is clean, the water is pure, and wildlife thrives in natural habitats untouched by human waste. Now, imagine the reality, especially as we approach World Conservation Day ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...