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South Korea Leads OECD Plan to Safeguard Mongolia’s Water Future

South Korea Leads OECD Plan to Safeguard Mongolia’s Water Future

ULAN BATOR, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea, in partnership with the OECD, has unveiled a comprehensive strategy to help Mongolia confront its growing water crisis, as climate pressures and overreliance on groundwater threaten supplies across the country. The proposal, announced Wednesday at the Mongolian Agency for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring in Ulan Bator, [...]

Contaminated Water Crisis: Japan’s Plan to Release Fukushima Water into the Ocean Sparks Concerns and Backlash

Contaminated Water Crisis: Japan’s Plan to Release Fukushima Water into the Ocean Sparks Concerns and Backlash

SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — In 1993, it was discovered that the Soviet (now Russian) Navy had dumped approximately 1,000 tons of radioactive nuclear waste in the East Sea, 190 kilometers southeast of Vladivostok. Although the Soviet Union claimed that the concentration of nuclear waste released was lower than the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) [...]