Opinion

If there's one material that defines modern life more than any other, it's plastic: present from the moment we're born in newborn stool, in product packaging, in the soil beneath our feet and the air we breathe.

When illicit supply grows, consumption does not disappear; it shifts into unregulated channels where oversight is limited and risks are amplified.

An hour into Trump's rambling speech, some people started to leave from overflow rooms.

With pollution in Pakistan hitting record highs in recent years, citizens clutching air monitors and legal papers are taking the fight for clean air into their own hands.

The world is entering an era of "global water bankruptcy" with rivers, lakes and aquifers depleting faster than nature can replenish them, a United Nations research institute said.