Chemical pollution is “a threat to the thriving of humans and nature of a similar order as climate change” but decades behind ...

Researchers are particularly concerned about how these particles may affect vulnerable populations, such as children and ...

Ahead of the UN treaty on plastics, a new report in The Lancet journal on Monday has warned that plastic pollution is an ...

Plastics are everywhere—they're even in you right now—and are making many of us sick. Now, global negotiators are fighting ...

Plastic pollution poses a "grave, growing, and under-recognised threat" to human health, costing the global economy at least ...

These health problems may be caused by chemicals added to plastics, including single-use plastics, of which 4,200 chemicals have been identified as posing a hazard to human and ecosystem health.

Negotiations are underway in Geneva on a legally binding Global Plastics Treaty that has been in the works for several years, as the crisis of pollution from plastics worldwide has grown more acute.

To appreciate just how small that is, the thickness of a human hair averages between 50 and 100 microns. Microplastics, by comparison, are defined as particles between 1 micron and 5 millimeters ...

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These health problems may be caused by chemicals added to plastics, including single-use plastics, of which 4,200 chemicals have been identified as posing a hazard to human and ecosystem health.