Is plastics recycling a lie? That’s the question at the heart of a new investigation into whether Americans have been filling up their blue bins with misplaced hope. The evidence on the side of recycling doesn’t look good. As far back as 1974, industry insiders were doubting whether plastics could ever be recycled economically. More recently, China’s decision to severely ...

Fires that have consumed swathes of Australia, the Arctic and now the western US are lighting only a tiny flame under climate action for the world’s top polluters. It’s hard to imagine how the past two years could have included more environmental alarm bells, from the ancient peatlands ablaze in the thawing north to mercury hitting just over 54 degrees ...

Bloomberg Japan’s key inflation gauge went negative again last month, underscoring the challenge the Bank of Japan and new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga face in trying to restore price momentum amid the pandemic. Consumer prices excluding fresh food fell 0.4% in August from a year earlier, going negative again after two months of staying unchanged, the ministry of internal affairs ...