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Negotiators working on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution for a week in South Korea won't reach an agreement and plan to resume the talks next year.

They are at an impasse over whether the treaty should reduce the total plastic on Earth and put global, legally binding controls on toxic chemicals used to make plastics.

The negotiations in Busan, South Korea, were supposed to be the fifth and final round to produce the first legally binding treaty on plastics pollution, including in the oceans, by the end of 2024. But with time running out early Monday, negotiators agreed to resume the talks next year. They don't yet have firm plans.

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The six-month season brought 18 named storms and 11 hurricanes, five of which made landfall in the U.S. There were hundreds of deaths in the U.S., Central America and the Caribbean.

In the U.S., more than 150 people died from direct causes in the season's deadliest storm, Hurricane Helene, which tore through Florida and Georgia and brought severe flooding and destruction to North Carolina and in eastern Tennessee.

Before the season began, scientists warned there were likely to be a lot of hurricanes. Record-high ocean temperatures in the Atlantic two to three degrees warmer than normal and other atmospheric conditions set the stage for the above-normal activity.

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The tiny pollutants emitted by fossil fuel combustion and wildfires may be raising the risk of adverse birth outcomes, a study has found.

Exposure to fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) can cause higher inflammation levels in pregnant people, potentially causing negative impacts to their children, according to the study, published Friday in Science.

Previous research had already identified associations between exposure to PM 2.5 and maternal and child health issues, including preeclampsia, low birth weight and developmental delays in early childhood. But this latest study, conducted by a Harvard University-led research team in California, is the first to explore the relationship between these pollutants and maternal and fetal health on a single-cell level.

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A storm that dumped snow in Colorado overnight is forecasted to intensify and head to the Midwest leading up to Thanksgiving Day as lake effect snow is expected to hit the Great Lakes region over the holiday weekend.

According to the National Weather Service, the low-pressure system from Rockies will become a dynamic mid-latitude cyclone. It could eventually bring some snowfall to the Northeast, while the Northern Appalachians could receive four to eight inches by Friday morning, according to the NWS.

In the upper Great Lakes region, snow showers resulting in four to eight inches of snow could hit the northern areas of the Michigan Peninsula.

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Millions of Americans will face severe weather – and low temperatures – as they travel for the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday.

The National Weather Service (NWS) issued an announcement on Monday that an Arctic blast is expected to bring “dangerous wind chills, lake effect snow, and severe thunderstorms”.

The “Arctic outbreak” will likely hit the Northern Rockies, which includes parts of Idaho, Montana and Washington state, as well as the Northern Plains region on Thursday before advancing into the midwest area this weekend, the NWS reported.

Severe thunderstorms could also hit the south-east, forecasters warned, as increased rain is predicted for swaths of the US.

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Forecasters through the US issued warnings that another round of winter weather could complicate travel leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday, while California and Washington state continue to recover from storm damage and power outages.

In California, where a person was found dead in a vehicle submerged in floodwaters on Saturday, authorities braced for more precipitation while grappling with flooding and small landslides from a previous storm.

The national weather service office in Sacramento, California, issued a winter storm warning for the state’s Sierra Nevada for Saturday through Tuesday, with heavy snow expected at higher elevations and wind gusts potentially reaching 55mph (88kph). Total snowfall of roughly 4ft (1.2 meters) was forecast, with the heaviest accumulations expected on Monday and Tuesday.

The midwest and Great Lakes regions will see rain and snow on Monday and the east coast will be the most affected on Thanksgiving and Black Friday, forecasters said.

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