This year is expected to be the hottest on record, but 18-year-old activist Shrusti Amula is refusing to feel down about the future of the planet. Instead, she’s working to reduce the impacts of ...

A U.K. startup, originating from founder Jacob Nathan’s high school science project on using enzymes to break down plastic waste, has secured an oversubscribed $18.3 million in Series A funding.

A new study determines that just four policies can reduce mismanaged plastic waste -- plastic that isn't recycled or properly disposed of and ends up as pollution -- by 91% and plastic-related ...

The Contra Costa County Administration Building in Martinez, Calif., is the world’s first public project to achieve the zero-waste-focused TRUE Gold certification for construction. The TRUE ...

Children who lived near a St. Louis creek polluted with radioactive atomic bomb waste from the 1940s through the 1960s were more likely to be diagnosed with cancer over their lifetimes than children ...

The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved a $60 million International Development Association credit to support Cambodia’s improvement of solid waste and plastic management. The ...

Washington, DC, December 18, 2025. The World Bank today approved a new project through which more than 15 million Indonesians will gain cleaner, healthier environments, and 10 million will be better ...

Residents of Dandora, Nairobi Kenya rush to salvage waste materials near an excavator on February, 14 2022. [Gerald Anderson, Standard] As cities get denser, waste management is a topic that cannot be ...