Korea Forest Research Institute Archives

Seoul to Study Effect of Urban Forests on Fine Dust

SEOUL, Jul. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A new environmental research project is set to be launched that will study the positive effect of urban forests on tackling the fine dust problem in the South Korean capital. The Seoul Research Institute of Public Health and Environment, a division of the Seoul Metropolitan Government, announced on Thursday [...]

Butterfly Migrations Prove Global Warming

SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The butterflies that live in the southern part of Korea have migrated 1.6 kilometers a year for the past 60 years, due to global warming. In the process of organizing the distribution change of butterflies among different species, the Korea Forest Research Institute discovered that the movement of the [...]