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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 20-Nov-2025 09:11 ET (20-Nov-2025 14:11 GMT/UTC)

UN Plastics Treaty: Will the negotiations in Geneva finally achieve a breakthrough?

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
Business Announcement

From 5 to 14 August, representatives from over 170 countries as well as from science, civil society and industry are meeting in Switzerland continuing the negotiations for a legally binding agreement to tackle the global plastic pollution. Dr Melanie Bergmann from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), has been involved in the negotiations since the beginning as part of the German delegation and the Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty: "Ideally, we will achieve in Geneva that the global community, or at least large parts of it, commit to a strong agreement that is based on scientific facts and recognizes how harmful plastic are to humans and nature."

Independent science reinforces the need to address plastic chemicals, production, and health

Food Packaging Forum Foundation
Meeting Announcement

Statement from the Scientists’ Coalition ahead of INC-5.2 to develop a global plastics treaty

Sustainable development is key to limiting costs of future wildfires

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Climate-related wildfires are once again making headlines as they rage across the northern hemisphere this summer. New IIASA research shows that addressing social and economic vulnerability across countries will be a key factor in mitigating the scale of resulting financial damage and emphasize sustainable development as key to reducing climate-related impacts.

Journal: Environmental Research Climate

Healthy longevity in Singapore: Public demand, policy opportunity

National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Reports and Proceedings

Understanding public awareness, behaviours, and attitudes toward Healthy Longevity Medicine, also called Precision Geromedicine, is essential for shaping future health strategies. This emerging field aims to optimise health and extend the healthy lifespan by addressing the biological processes of ageing throughout a person's life.

Weathering change: Fewer cold fatalities, more heat emergencies in California

University of California - San Diego
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Rising temperatures in California are causing fewer cold-related deaths, outweighing heat-related deaths. But hotter temperatures are increasing emergency department visits, placing a greater burden on the healthcare system, report UC San Diego and Stanford University researchers.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Borderline democracy? How Polish voters tolerated restrictions of civil liberties to address immigration crisis

University of California - Merced
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Facing a growing migration crisis in 2021, the Polish government declared a state of emergency along its border with Belarus, suspending basic civil liberties for citizens. A new study in The Journal of Politics finds evidence that the action avoided politcal backlash from voters, indicating citizens will tolerate civil restrictions if they feel it is worth the outcome.

Journal: The Journal of Politics

Preserving and promoting clinical trial representativeness

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: This review synthesizes the latest policies and initiatives concerning representation in clinical research and provides a strategic framework to ensure scientific validity of clinical trials by operationalizing broad representation at all levels. A coordinated approach among stakeholders is needed to address the scientific value of trial representation of the intended use population.

Journal: JAMA Cardiology

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