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(American Geological Institute) Humans produce over 260 million tons of plastic each year. Almost a third of that plastic goes into disposable, one-time-use items, and only about one percent of it is recycled globally.

Where does the rest of the plastic go? How does it interact with our environment? And how will it impact us in the future?

In this month's issue of EARTH Magazine, follow the fate of many plastics as they make their way from our homes to our planet's oceans.

A long-running war between Democrats and Republicans over Bush-era tax cuts doomed the debt supercommittee's chances of reaching a deal.

Efforts to overhaul the tax code may await the same fate as both parties gear up to make taxes a central issue in 2012 elections.

With the rising sales of e-books and failing brick and mortar bookstores, is it the end for the printed text? Maybe; but maybe not.

Unemployment key to fate of stocks Weak jobs market keeping investors on edge Resumes sit in a basket at an event for job seekers last month.

As powerful as Wall Street appears to be, its abuse of power has so eroded the economic, social, and environmental foundations of its own existence that its fate is sealed.

International bankers have pushed Afghan officials to sell Kabul Bank, but the nation's top banker said Sunday that no decision has been made about whether to dissolve the nation's largest financial institution, which nearly collapsed last year from mismanagement and questionable lending.

Everybody’s suddenly petrified about municipal debt. But the fate of bondholders ought to be the least of our worries.

The board of General Motors Co. is expected to decide Tuesday the fate of Opel and Vauxhall, ending more than a year of uncertainty surrounding its business and restructuring in Europe and the U.S.

With its fate linked to Wall Street, the Darfur Project wants to make a difference in Sudan, and reinvent the way finance gives

The only man ever convicted in the bombing of a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, was due to learn Thursday whether he will be freed on compassionate grounds or die in a British prison.