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Greenpeace calls for global action over nets, lines and traps that are deadly for marine life

Plastic pollution is a pervasive and growing problem. To estimate the effectiveness of interventions to reduce plastic pollution, we modeled stocks and flows of municipal solid waste and four sources of microplastics through the global plastic system for five scenarios between 2016 and 2040. Implementing all feasible interventions reduced plastic pollution by 40% from 2016 rates and 78% relative to ‘business as usual’ in 2040. Even with immediate and concerted action, 710 million metric tons of plastic waste cumulatively entered aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. To avoid a massive build-up of plastic in the environment, coordinated global action is urgently needed to reduce plastic consumption, increase rates of reuse, waste collection and recycling, expand safe disposal systems and accelerate innovation in the plastic value chain.

After Covid-19, to ignore the links between animal and human health would be to invite unimaginable disaster, say Jonathan Safran Foer and Aaron S Gross

It is time to finally make the connection between animal agriculture and environmental destruction, antibiotic resistance and disease outbreak... Wuhan in China is the sprawling capital city of the Hubei province, and an epicentre of culture, education, manufacturing and transportation links.Now, Wuhan has a new reputation. It is the city that gave birth to the Wuhan novel coronavirus (WN-CoV), the viral disease outbreak that has captured headlines, shut down cities and continues to spread while the rest of the world looks on with horrified abandon.

"If you actually want to create global pandemics, then build factory farms."

US government vets said to be ready to assist with culls, or ‘depopulation’ of pigs, chickens and cattle because of coronavirus meat plant closures

It isn't always easy being vegan. With so much of mainstream food culture obsessing over meat -- ahem, bacon -- and the rest of it addicted to butter, following a vegan diet can take a bit of work and...

It's a simple question - with a complicated answer

Naturalist tells leaders at UN climate summit that fate of world is in their hands

A deeper dive into the day's most notable stories with The National newsletter's Jonathon Gatehouse.

Montreal, Glasgow, Belfast and Yerevan, Armenia, are among the international cities to set all-time-high temperatures.

Fifty years after the publication of his controversial book The Population Bomb, biologist Paul Ehrlich warns overpopulation and overconsumption are driving us over the edge

On August 1, humanity consumed more resources than the Earth can regenerate each year. It's the earliest 'Earth Overshoot Day' ever, and HSBC is warning that companies and governments are not prepared.

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