A discussion of a binational commission’s failure to prevent massive wastewater discharges into a transboundary waterway between the US and Mexico.

Along with polluting our environment, it is possible that consuming water in plastic bottles is also polluting our bodies. New evidence shows bottled water contains significant numbers of microplastic particles, and the effect on humans after consuming microplastics remains unknown.

While introducing a set of framework principles on human rights and the environment, the Special Rapporteur urged the Human Rights Council to take action.

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea includes two mechanisms which are of vital environmental importance for the deep sea and which the United States is neglecting by not acceding.

The Purple Line has sparked public support and opposition. The line will connect Bethesda to New Carrollton at the cost of closing a popular trail.