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Banner Image of a far eastern curlew courtesy of Dong-pil.

Scientists warn of S. Korea airport project’s impact on migratory bird habitat

Kristine Sabillo 7 May 2025
A school of hammerhead sharks, Mikimoto, Japan. Masayuki Agawa / Ocean Image Bank

Annual ocean conference nets $9.1 billion for initiatives, despite US absence

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 May 2025
A forest fire in Sancheong County, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, in March 2025. Image by 경상남도 via Wikimedia Commons (KOGL Type 1).

Deadly South Korea wildfires made twice more likely by climate change

Shreya Dasgupta 1 May 2025
Banner image of South Korea wildfires by NASA (Public domain).

Wildfires in South Korea kill at least 30 people

Kristine Sabillo 1 Apr 2025

‘Substantial’ transshipment reforms adopted at North Pacific fisheries summit

Edward Carver 31 Mar 2025
The Hadong power plant in South Korea co-fires coal with woody biomass, allowing it to claim it is reducing emissions under the UN loophole.

South Korea slashes forest biomass energy subsidies in major policy reform

Annelise Giseburt 20 Dec 2024

Indonesian forests put at risk by South Korean and Japanese biomass subsidies

Annelise Giseburt 12 Dec 2024
Banner image of civil society groups protesting at the INC-5 meeting in Busan, South Korea. Image courtesy of Seunghyeok Choi/Break Free From Plastic.

No deal to curb plastic production as latest negotiations fizzle

Kristine Sabillo 2 Dec 2024

Wristbands reveal nearly everyone is exposed to chemicals from plastic

Bobby Bascomb 27 Nov 2024

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

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