If all goes according to plan, by the end of the year, some 170 countries will finalize the world’s first legally binding treaty to curtail plastic pollution. Its success will depend in no small part ...

A new study from the University shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. University of Leeds ...

Several locations around the world are inundated with polluted water and the situation in these hot spots may only get worse in the coming years. This water pollution mainly comes from the leakage of ...

The Nigerian Environmental Society (NES), has rated waste management and pollution, energy efficiency at 90 per cent, topping environmental sustainability challenges in Nigeria that requires urgent ...

William Wordsworth, the poet who believed nature to be humanity's greatest teacher, once wrote that a single impulse from the ...

A new study explores waste management systems and reveals that achieving zero waste leakage by 2030 is unlikely, potentially jeopardizing related Sustainable Development Goals. The authors emphasize ...

A University of Michigan study has found that people in Ghana and across the Global South who recycle electronic waste face a difficult paradox: earning livelihoods to ensure survival comes at the ...

The study identifies Geographic Information Systems as the foundational layer of modern digital waste management. Waste ...

City employees in Bangkok, Thailand, were ordered to work from home for two days due to soaring air pollution levels. Air pollution, primarily caused by the burning of forests and agricultural waste, ...

Gulam Murtaza Nabeel India’s growing waste crisis is often discussed in the context of metropolitan cities, but the situation in small and hilly districts remains largely invisible. During my summer ...

In a move to strengthen marine environmental protection, China has announced amendments to existing laws focused on enhancing pollution control and waste management and introducing stricter penalties ...