South korea News

RSS
35 stories

Hyundai ends aluminum deal with Adaro Minerals following K-pop protest

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Apr 2024

The EU banned Russian wood pellet imports; South Korea took them all

Justin Catanoso 24 Jan 2023

‘It was a shark operation’: Q&A with Indonesian crew abused on Chinese shark-finning boat

Philip Jacobson and Basten Gokkon 2 Dec 2022
A truck carrying acacia logs in Indonesia

Biomass cofiring loopholes put coal on open-ended life support in Asia

Annelise Giseburt 29 Aug 2022
Wood chips for biomass burning at Tofte, Norway. Image by Statkraft via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

As biomass burning surges in Japan and South Korea, where will Asia get its wood?

Annelise Giseburt 19 May 2022
Timber for biomass burning at Tofte, Norway

Missing the emissions for the trees: Biomass burning booms in East Asia

Justin Catanoso 11 May 2022

COP26: Surging wood pellet industry threatens climate, say experts

Sharon Guynup 9 Nov 2021

Worked to death: How a Chinese tuna juggernaut crushed its Indonesian workers

Mongabay and Tansa and The Environmental Reporting Collective 13 Sep 2021

Burning forests to make energy: EU and world wrestle with biomass science

Justin Catanoso 19 Aug 2021

Leaders make bold climate pledges, but is it ‘all just smoke and mirrors?’: Critics

Justin Catanoso 23 Apr 2021

500+ experts call on world’s nations to not burn forests to make energy

Justin Catanoso 15 Feb 2021

Are forests the new coal? Global alarm sounds as biomass burning surges

Justin Catanoso 31 Aug 2020

Business risk and COVID-19 are pushing Asian financiers away from coal

Nithin Coca 3 Aug 2020

In South Korea, centuries of farming point to the future for sustainable agriculture

Latoya Abulu 18 May 2020

Scientists warn U.S. Congress against declaring biomass burning carbon neutral

Justin Catanoso 13 May 2020

South Korea subsidizing biomass so heavily that wind and solar are being crowded out of the market

Mike Gaworecki 30 Apr 2020

Green groups target South Korea’s bailout of coal power plant builder

Basten Gokkon 10 Apr 2020
A ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii), the species of pangolin that lives in Zimbabwe. Three other pangolin species live in Africa, and four others live in Asia. Image by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Scales from around 50,000 pangolins seized by Chinese customs

Mongabay.com 20 Dec 2019

South Korea funding coal plants overseas that would be banned at home

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Nov 2019

As the DMZ turns 65, a call for Korean peace through conservation (commentary)

Russell A. Mittermeier and Michael I. Crowther 24 Aug 2018

Government subsidies serving to prop up destructive high-seas fishing: study

Basten Gokkon 8 Jun 2018

A boon for birds: Once overlooked, China’s mudflats gain protections

Benjamin Graham 11 May 2018

‘Sustainable’ tropical timber trade a misnomer, says group

Mongabay.com 24 Oct 2013

IUCN to kick-off Green List for ‘fully conserved’ species

Jeremy Hance 27 Sep 2012

As U.S. sees record heat, extreme weather pummels 4 continents

Jeremy Hance 10 Jul 2012

Agricultural area larger than Texas has been ‘land-grabbed’

Jeremy Hance 26 Jun 2012

“Strong evidence” linking extreme heatwaves, floods, and droughts to climate change

Jeremy Hance 28 Mar 2012

Russia, South Korea sign agreement to resurrect woolly mammoth

Jeremy Hance 19 Mar 2012

‘Land grab’ fears in Africa legitimate

Jeremy Hance 31 Jan 2011

2009 carbon emissions higher than expected

Jeremy Hance 22 Nov 2010

In the midst of marine collapse will we save our last ocean?

Jeremy Hance 5 Jul 2010

South Korea’s frogs have avoided amphibian crisis so far, an interview with Pierre Fidenci

Jeremy Hance 9 Sep 2009

you're currently offline