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As the UN body faces an American threat to its jurisdiction over deep-sea mining, diplomats have more or less left all the ...
Diplomats from around the world concluded nine days of talks in Geneva — plus a marathon overnight session that lasted into the early hours of Friday — with no agreement on a global plastics treaty.
Faced with a looming fuel crunch, some worry California will push aside its efforts to combat climate change to keep gasoline flowing.
New maps show that where animal feeding operations exist, higher percentages of Latino and uninsured residents also live.
Scientists are exploring whether encouraging phytoplankton growth could sequester atmospheric carbon without harming oceanic ...
The boom in AI and data centers is driving Indigenous communities to defend their land, resources, and cultural knowledge ...
A Native Hawaiian mother’s fight to keep her family in Lāhainā despite soaring costs, mortgage limbo, and land-hungry ...
The Trump administration wants to eliminate the energy efficiency program, but bakers, builders, and chemical companies are ...
Procedural rules for the plastics treaty negotiations say that, for substantive issues, delegates “ shall make every effort ” ...
As countries try to find agreement on plastic pollution, creative interventions are turning heads — and turning the ...
A new report is the first to put hard numbers to that effectiveness in the United States and Canada. The analysis quantifies ...
Despite strong evidence that plastics are harmful to people, oil-producing countries oppose action on human health.