For decades, plastic packaging has been optimised for cost, convenience and scale. It has performed this role effectively, protecting products from external elements and extending shelf life. I’ve spent the past decade looking at the downsides of plastics, documenting the impact of plastic pollution on vulnerable ecosystems, and on the tens of millions of workers operating within ​an unregulated informal recycling economy.

A summary of the events that happened on day 1,575 of the Russia-Ukraine War.

Royal Marine commandos and specially trained law enforcement officers from the National Crime Agency boarded an oil tanker in a first-of-its-kind operation

Samples were taken from the new machines that have been rolled out at restaurants across the country.

The issue has raised questions about who can and can’t serve in the Scottish Parliament

A summary of the events that happened on day 1,526 of the Russia-Ukraine War.

Russia is trying to produce more pro-war influencers through content creation camps, training teenagers to spread the Kremlin's hardline, anti-West narrative to the next generation.

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Trump's Davos debacle marked a new low.

Acetaminophen use during pregnancy is not likely to raise the risk of having a child with autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability, according to a new study published Friday.

More than 3,000 people have died in Iran's nationwide protests, rights activists said on Saturday, while a "very slight rise" in internet activity was reported in the country after an eight-day blackout.

People are asking Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to alter images to depict women being sexually abused, humiliated, and even killed.

Hospital mortuary staff at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital passed a wrongly labelled corpse to undertakers, in an error discovered after the funeral

Ukraine says Putin has responded to peace efforts with ‘terror’