International agreements are better than treaties when addressing global environmental problems with diplomacy, namely because agreements have more flexibility, according to a former assistant ...

For generations, there’s been a false narrative that people must choose profit or purpose because they're on opposite ends of ...

Clothing production has hit unprecedented rates-so has textile waste. A new BCG report explores scaling the circular economy ...

Plastic pollution is one of the top global environmental problems, leading to an estimated 19 to 23 million tons of plastic waste polluting lakes, rivers, seas and oceans across the world ...

Since March 2022, the global community has been negotiating a global plastics treaty within the framework of the United ...

North African and European countries are having to tackle a growing range of problems in the Mediterranean Sea, from plastic ...

The global human expansion was facilitated by the process of cultural adaptation to the environment. This leads to the accumulation of adaptive cultural traits -- social systems and technology to ...

Americans also largely believe they do not bear responsibility for global environmental problems. Only about 15 percent of US respondents said that high- and middle-income Americans share ...

In recent years, hopes have grown that AI may also help humanity tackle global environmental problems such as climate change. AI involves using computers to make them think like humans.

Plastics are not as safe and inert as previously thought. The new research article written by an international team of researchers uses the planetary boundaries framework to structure the rapidly ...

Education Lab Environment Local News Northwest Puget Sound Technology WA winner of Rise Challenge seeks global solutions to environmental problems Dec. 4, 2023 at 6:00 am Updated Dec. 4, 2023 at 7 ...

Her book, Not the End of the World, makes an evidence-based case for why we have a meaningful chance to solve global environmental problems for the first time in human history.