Dr. Elizabeth Yuko is a bioethicist and adjunct professor of ethics at Fordham University. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, CNN & Playboy. When ...

Plastic pollution is a global environmental issue that needs no introduction — the very words conjure images of plastic bags washed up along shorelines and floating lagoons of plastic debris choking ...

As we have seen this summer, the climate crisis and its extreme weather events are already upon us, causing property damage, jeopardizing our infrastructure and endangering public health. One way to ...

Single-use plastic bag bans have successfully reduced plastic bag use and associated litter and pollution, a new study has found. Bans in five US states and cities with a combined population of around ...

The ban goes into effect on March 1. Plastic shopping bags are going the way of the dodo in New York. The state's ban on plastic bags, adopted last year by the Legislature, goes into effect March 1 ...