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Sat, February 27, 2021 | 07:11

'Sparrows' try to cap surge of throwaway plastic

'Sparrows' try to cap surge of throwaway plastic

At a workshop in the South Korean capital, two environmental activists melt down old plastic bottle caps that thousands of volunteers known as "sparrows" have collected in a bid to fight a tide of plastic the novel coronavirus has helped unleash. Green activists Kim Yona and Lee Dong-I use the bottle caps to make a tube-squeezing device - something they hope consumers will fi...

2020-11-06 10:07

Freezing temperatures

Freezing temperatures

People bundled up against the cold weather wait for a traffic light to change in front of Dongnae Station in Busan, Wednesday. The Korea Meteorological Administration said temperatures nationwide dropped to near or below freezing Wednesday, noting that the strong autumn cold front causing the low temperatures would end Thursday afternoon.

Jun Ji-hye2020-11-04 16:53

Moon reaffirms Korea's commitment to achieving carbon neutral by 2050

Moon reaffirms Korea's commitment to achieving carbon neutral by 2050

President Moon Jae-in said Tuesday that South Korea is seriously committed to its stated aim of going carbon neutral by 2050 to support the global fight against climate change. He called for national efforts to attain the goal via a "calm and cool-headed" approach, speaking during a weekly Cabinet meeting at Cheong Wa Dae. "Carbon neutrality is the direction in which the worl...

2020-11-03 13:50

[ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL] Green New Deal, lever for green transition

[ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL] Green New Deal, lever for green transition

The world is gripped by fear and shock caused by COVID-19. Global growth in 2020 was projected at minus 4.9 percent by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in June. Some even warn life will never return to how it was before the pandemic.

Jun Ji-hye2020-11-01 16:55

14 delivery workers die because of pandemic overwork: union

14 delivery workers die because of pandemic overwork: union

Fourteen delivery workers in South Korea have died of overwork this year because they had to handle a sharply higher volume of packages due to the coronavirus pandemic, with the latest fatality this week, a union official said. A worker for CJ Logistics Corp collapsed while taking a short break late on Tuesday night and later died in hospital, according to an official at the ...

2020-10-22 21:00

Seoul issues fine dust advisory

Seoul issues fine dust advisory

The Seoul metropolitan government on Thursday issued its first fine dust advisory of this fall, citing an inflow of fine dust and yellow dust from China and elsewhere. According to the city's health and environment research center, the average fine dust concentration level stayed above 150 micrograms per cubic meter for over two hours, forcing it to issue the advisory.

2020-10-22 16:47

Samsung C&T, KEPCO urged to pull out of coal power plant project in Vietnam

Samsung C&T, KEPCO urged to pull out of coal power plant project in Vietnam

Global asset managers have urged companies building a coal-fired power plant in Vietnam to withdraw due to climate change risks and economic inefficiency, according to a letter from one of them.

Ko Dong-hwan | 2020-10-21 15:13

Air pollution killed nearly 500,000 newborns in 2019: global study

Air pollution killed nearly 500,000 newborns in 2019: global study

Air pollution killed 476,000 newborns in 2019, with the biggest hotspots in India and Sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new global study which said that nearly two-thirds of the deaths came from noxious fumes from cooking fuels. More than 116,000 Indian infants died from air pollution in the first month of life, and the corresponding figure was 236,000 in Sub-Saharan Africa,...

2020-10-21 14:34

Wolsong-1 reactor's economic viability unreasonably undervalued: watchdog

Wolsong-1 reactor's economic viability unreasonably undervalued: watchdog

The economic viability of South Korea's second-oldest nuclear reactor was unreasonably undervalued in determining the facility's early closure, state auditors said Tuesday. In its audit report on the early closure of the Wolsong-1, the Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) concluded that a June 2018 projection report commissioned by the Korea Hydro Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) incl...

2020-10-20 15:16

New 'remote' flare stack monitoring to reduce harmful emissions

New 'remote' flare stack monitoring to reduce harmful emissions

A new way to monitor flare stacks “remotely” to maintain their combustion rate high and reduce environmentally hazardous emissions has been developed by state environmental researchers.

Ko Dong-hwan | 2020-10-19 17:57

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