Inger Andersen

Negotiators gathered in Busan, South Korea, on Monday in a final push to create a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution.

The proposal focuses on a technique that fills the atmosphere with particles, reflecting part of the sun’s heat and light into space.

The world’s top decision-making body on the environment is meeting in Kenya's capital on Monday to discuss how countries can work together to tackle environmental crises like climate change, pollution and loss of biodiversity.

Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says.

The UN environment assembly resolution is being hailed as the biggest climate deal since the 2015 Paris accord.

Majestic, increasingly hungry and at risk of disappearing, the polar bear is dependent on something melting away on our warming planet: sea ice.

More than one world leader says humanity’s future, even survival, hangs in the balance when international officials meet in Scotland to try to accelerate efforts to curb climate change. Temperatures, tempers and hyperbole have all ratcheted up ahead of the United Nations summit.

Air pollution kills more people than malaria, HIV/AIDS, and TB combined but receives only one per cent of development aid.

Fossil fuels, cattle and rotting waste produce methane, a greenhouse gas responsible for 30 per cent of global heating. Cutting it is the strongest action available to slow global heating in the near term, the UN's environment chief says.

Inger Andersen, executive director of the UN Environment Programme, writes on plastic's key role in the global waste crisis and the role industry in the Great Lakes region can play in turning it around.