If you don’t understand the scale of a problem, how can you effectively take steps to address it? How can you know what is ...
WWF/ Greg Armfield Plastic pollution can now be found everywhere on our planet, not just on beaches and floating in the ocean. Plastics have been found in the air, soil and water, in our food and even ...
“We are urging all countries supportive of the treaty to come together and accelerate their work towards an agreement on marine plastic pollution.” WWF is calling for a binding treaty that would ...
Country Director of WWF-Laos, Mr. Somphone Bouasavanh, and a Fisheries project manager, Mr. Soutchai Khamphouxay, presented on how plastic affects the environment and negatively impacts forests, ...
BBC environment journalists analyse the key events coming up in 2025 with game-changing potential for climate and nature.
But how significant are such bans in terms of countermeasures against environmental pollution ... of plastic ones. Yukihiro Misawa, circular economy manager and plastics policy manager at WWF ...
In response to the devastating effects of plastic on the Earth’s oceans, and specifically on waterways and coastal ...
The cost of the damage caused by marine plastic pollution is estimated at around $10,000 to $33,000 per tonne of plastic waste. According to a study by the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), over a ...
On Son Island in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, Le Trung Tin scatters fish feed into his ponds, where dozens of snakehead fish leap through the surface in synchronised bursts. “I taught them how to do that,” ...