South korea News

RSS
39 stories

South Korea slashes forest biomass energy subsidies in major policy reform

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

No deal to curb plastic production as latest negotiations fizzle

Wristbands reveal nearly everyone is exposed to chemicals from plastic

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

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

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

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

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

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

COP26: Surging wood pellet industry threatens climate, say experts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scales from around 50,000 pangolins seized by Chinese customs

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

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

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

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

‘Sustainable’ tropical timber trade a misnomer, says group

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

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

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

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

Russia, South Korea sign agreement to resurrect woolly mammoth

you're currently offline