This shouldn’t have happened; plastic is supposed to last forever. It turns out that plastic enclosures are vulnerable to the same things as skin, and the effects are similar. When they are ...

OTTAWA, Ontario — Nations made progress on a treaty to end plastic pollution, finishing the latest round of negotiations in Canada early Tuesday amid sharp disagreements about whether to put ...

and manufacturing economics favor the use of newly made plastic. Thus, great quantities of plastic go to landfills or incineration, or worse into the environment as trash. Microplastics become ...

New research from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, and the University of Toronto in Canada, estimates up to 11 million tonnes of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor.

Because plastic wasn’t invented until the late 19th century, and production really only took off around 1950, we have a mere 9.2 billion tons ... which supplies 11 percent of the world’s ...

Getty A Florida man ran over an 11-foot alligator with his truck to save his neighbor from a vicious attack. According to WBBH-TV, the incident occurred on the night of Friday, April 19 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this ... Pichai admits to challenges caused by Google’s sheer size. “Scale isn’t always good for you,” he said this week ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The question of how to squash government debt is about as fresh as a pickled turnip. And given rising ...

Despite global headwinds, the Indian office market continues its positive trajectory, registering a net absorption of 11.5 mn sq ft across ... received close to 2.0 mn sq ft of pre-commitments ...

And we want to hear from you. BBC Newsround: Sir David Attenborough is backing a report that demonstrates the huge impact of plastic pollution on developing countries.

The Bank of England spent three years studying the potential effect of a switch from cotton and linen paper notes and concluded as well that plastic was the way to go. A polymer £5 note featuring Sir ...