South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul speaks during a plenary of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution in Busan, South Korea, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024.

In observance of International Plastic Bag Free Day 2025, environmental justice group BAN Toxics reaffirms its unwavering ...

BUSAN, South Korea — Global talks to forge a landmark treaty aimed at reducing plastic pollution broke down after negotiators from more than 170 countries remained deadlocked over how to curb ...

BUSAN, South Korea (AP) — Negotiations on a treaty to end plastic pollution have concluded in Busan, South Korea without reaching an agreement. This was supposed to be the fifth and final round ...

Delegates have arrived in Busan, South Korea, to find a way to address plastic pollution. The U.N. summit is aiming to negotiate a legally binding global treaty to reduce global plastic waste.

That notion had gained traction leading up to the final round of talks in Busan, ... 4 of the New York edition with the headline: The World Seeks an End to Plastic Pollution at Talks in South Korea.

South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul speaks during a plenary of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution in Busan, South Korea, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024.

Police have detained six Americans in South Korea for allegedly trying to send 1,600 plastic bottles filled with rice, U.S.

The tragic deaths of three Busan teens last week brought renewed attention to the country's rising youth suicide rate.

In a country known as one of the world's worst offenders of marine plastic pollution, the circularity advocate and ...

A last round of negotiations on a legally binding treaty to address the global scourge of plastic pollution has opened in Busan, South ... be held from Nov. 25 to Dec. 1 in Busan, South Korea, ...

BUSAN, South Korea (AP) — Negotiations on a treaty to end plastic pollution have concluded in Busan, South Korea without reaching an agreement.. This was supposed to be the fifth and final round ...