In a new policy document, the UN recommends shifting the burden of proof for pollution-related harms to health from ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -Wildfires likely to have been made more frequent by climate change made significant contributions to air pollution last year, according to a report by the World Meteorological ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wildfires made significant contributions to air pollution last year, according to the United Nations’ weather and climate agency.

Air pollution is causing widespread violations of fundamental human rights, a United Nations expert has told the Human Rights Council, warning that billions of people are being exposed to dangerous ...

Negotiators have failed to agree on the world’s first treaty to combat plastic pollution in what was meant to be the final round of UN talks. Delegates were seeking to complete a legally binding ...

GENEVA, Switzerland — Negotiations to reach a major treaty to end growing plastic pollution around the world fell apart on Friday, with delegates in Switzerland adjourning with no immediate plans to ...

Nearly 100 countries on Wednesday rejected a draft of an international treaty to end plastic pollution, a day before its August 14 deadline, with some describing the text as “unambitious” and ...

Once again, global negotiations to secure a treaty to end plastic pollution have ended without agreement, after two weeks of talks in Geneva exposed irreconcilable divisions between ...

A United Nations special rapporteur warned Friday that air pollution is contributing to widespread human rights violations worldwide, calling on governments to take urgent action to reduce pollution ...

The University of California, Berkeley unveiled a new interactive tool on Tuesday that it designed for the United Nations, at no cost, in an effort to combat dangerous pollutants around the world. The ...