NORTH JEOLLA, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — “In the past there have been rare cases where moths from the sub-tropics were discovered in the island regions of the West Sea [Yellow Sea], but this is the first time a species of giant moth like the tropical swallowtail moth has been found.” Those were the words [...]
JEJU, South Korea, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Al Gore, the former United States Vice President, and a devoted environmentalist, said that a food crisis triggered by drastic climate change was behind the Arab revolutions and the Syrian civil war. Speaking at the Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity on Thursday, Gore said that the [...]
SUWON, South Korea, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Amid rising concerns over climate change, the latest study by the Gyeonggi Green Environment Center anticipates that Gyeonggi Province – a province of 12 million surrounding the South Korean capital – could experience 166 days of summer by 2070. That is about 50 days longer than the [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The Green Climate Fund, the South Korea-based United Nations climate fund aimed at helping poor nations fight global warming, has approved eight new projects worth US$755 million, according to the organization Friday. The approval, which was made at the fund’s board meeting in South Korea on Thursday, brought its [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s offshore fisheries output sank to a 44-year low in 2016 due to tumbling fish stocks caused by a combination of Chinese illegal fishing, climate change and overfishing, a report showed Monday. The country’s inshore and offshore fisheries production came to 923,000 tons last year, down 12.7 percent [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s average temperature hit a record high last year due to climate change, which has also caused the world to see the highest-ever annual average temperatures, the weather agency said Monday. The median temperature was 13.6 C between January and November, 1.1 degrees higher than usual, the Korea [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study from the National Institute of Forest Science revealed that ants, among the insects more vulnerable to climate change, are migrating to higher elevations as a result of global warming, with their distribution pattern changing from being largely temperate to more tropical in terms of climate distribution. [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – According to the Korea Intellectual Property Office, a total of 340 patent applications related to agricultural technology that improves a crop’s resistibility to environmental stress have been submitted since 2005. Since 2010, at least 30 patents were filed each year, 87 percent of which were by domestic applicants. KIPO [...]
SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A huge swarm of Morocco locusts struck Russia last week, a phenomenon that experts suggest was caused by recent climate change. Likewise, Korea is also suffering from swarms of insects that are attacking urban and rural areas across the country. The early-arrival of warmer weather is shortening insect life [...]
CHUNGJU, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Chungju is a city in North Chungcheong Province famous for its apple orchards, but is now steadily expanding its agricultural production to tropical fruits. For the first time last year, Chungju cultivated passion fruits, which are native to tropical and subtropical regions. One passion fruit contains 36 percent of the recommended [...]