Since plastic began to be mass-produced in the 1950s, the material has been building up in the environment and in people’s bodies. These five graphs illustrate just how bad the problem has gotten, and ...

World leaders are in Geneva this week trying to hammer out the world’s first legally binding treaty to tackle the plastic ...

If the EPA abdicates its responsibility to address climate change, it will harm health and the planet in exchange for ...

The global community has a moral imperative to enact transformational public policy changes to curb the rising dangers of the amalgamation of a "meta crisis." ...

All four candidates running to replace the late Rep. Joe Casello in House District 90 have qualified for the contest. HD 90 ...

Nations kicked off a meeting to try to complete a landmark treaty aimed at ending the plastic pollution crisis.

Researchers are warning about a "global plastics crisis" that's costing about $1.5 trillion a year in deaths and medical ...

Here’s a look at each candidate. Atop the list, alphabetically, is Delray Beach Commissioner Rob Long, who was campaigning to ...

Dallas investor Kyle Bass proposes a private-sector solution to Texas' looming water crisis. Lawmakers clash over legality, ...

Massachusetts lawmakers have passed a funding bill that includes a pay raise for public defenders in hopes of ending a legal crisis. At least 120 court cases have been prematurely ...

U.N. officials say many people in Gaza are experiencing "famine-like conditions." Health experts who have studied past ...

The U.S. and Mexico on Thursday took collaborative steps toward curbing a long-standing, cross-border environmental crisis: the unfettered sewage flow from Tijuana into Southern California. Environ… ...