THUWAL, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Seaweed, as its unfortunate name suggests, can be a nuisance. It makes a mess of beautiful beaches. It bobs up and down in the waves in an unsightly blob. And it sticks to unsuspecting swimmers as they try to enjoy a dip. But despite its reputation with [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — In the midst of a surge in momentum for environmental movements looking to overcome climate change, an increasing percentage of young Koreans are deciding not to have children because they do not want their offspring to suffer from the environmental collapse. Kim Woo-seop, a 28-year-old office worker, is concerned [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies are underperforming when it comes to addressing climate change, an international environmental group said Thursday. Greenpeace asked 100 subsidiaries of 10 major conglomerates in the country about their usage of renewable energy and plans on fully replacing electricity with renewable energy to come up with an [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Climate change not only alters the timing of the blooming seasons, but also triggers early spawning among animals, and threatens the survival of trees at high altitudes. The state-run Korea National Park Service (KNPS) recently reported that climate change is being felt in all environmental aspects including local ecosystems [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Human-caused climate change has brought about extensive meteorological changes on the Korean Peninsula over the past century, making summers longer and winters hotter and shorter and increasing the frequency of extreme weather events, such as heat waves and heavy downpours, a report said Sunday. The report from the Korea [...]
Boston, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Thirteen states in the United States, known as the Corn Belt, are responsible for 90 percent of the corn grain and produce in the country and almost 30 percent of the global corn crop. Using climates projected by four climate models as inputs, simulated yields across the Corn Belt [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK has been appointed as advocates to raise awareness for a global campaign against climate change issues, the band’s agency said Friday. The four-piece act recently received a personal letter from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in which he invited them to serve as advocates for [...]
BOSTON, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR), in collaboration with experts from the Brookings Institution and AXIS Capital Holdings Limited, released a report which explores how climate change may affect hurricane risk in the United States by 2050, specifically related to financial losses to residential and commercial properties. AIR Worldwide is a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — If greenhouse gases are continuously emitted at the current level, average annual temperatures on the Korean Peninsula will rise by up to 7 C by 2100, pushing the people into a serious crisis, a government report warned Monday. The report published by the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Prices of agricultural products have skyrocketed following 54 days of disastrous summer weather that brought severe monsoon rains as well as five typhoons across the Korean peninsula. Experts argue that this is just the beginning, warning that an unprecedented scale of climate change will sweep across South Korea. Hot [...]