THE world creates 57 million tons of plastic pollution every year and spreads it from the deepest oceans to the highest mountaintop to the inside of people’s bodies, according to a new study that also said more than two-thirds of it comes from the Global South.
It’s enough pollution each year — about 52 million metric tons — to fill New York City’s Central Park with plastic waste as high as the Empire State Building, researchers at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom said.
THE Supreme Court has upheld the life imprisonment sentence of a South Korean pastor convicted of qualified trafficking involving minors. Si Young Oh, also known as Steve Oh and affiliated with the Korean Christian Presbyterian […]
MANILA, Philippines — The quad committee at the House of Representatives proposed the revival of the death penalty for heinous crimes that would stem from its ongoing investigation. The panel, composed of the committees on […]
WASHINGTON — Global views toward China appear to be divided between high-income and middle-income countries, and the gap apparently is the widest among China’s neighbors in the Indo-Pacific region, according to a newly released poll […]
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