SEOUL: South Korea has won international praise for its disposal efforts, but as it prepares to host deals for a global plastic waste deal, experts say the government’s approach highlights its limitations. When the INC-5 talks in Busan start the following year, it is anticipated that there will be aContinue Reading
Japan: Snow has eventually fallen on Mount Fuji, photos showed Wednesday ( Nov 6), after warm conditions led to the Japanese castle’s longest-ever stay with exposed slopes. The popular snowcap of the volcano typically forms on October 2, and last year winter was first detected by government scientists on OctoberContinue Reading
Japan: Snow has suddenly fallen on Mount Fuji, images shared by regional authorities and people showed on Wednesday ( Nov 6), after the Chinese mountain’s longest-ever stint with exposed slopes. According to overcast conditions close to its monitoring place, the national climate organization has not yet set a new historyContinue Reading
More than 30 000 protesters gathered in South Korea’s capital on Saturday ( Sep 7 ) on a scorching hot day to demand more aggressive action from the government to stop global warming. In the biggest demonstration in the country so far this year, snarling prospects in northern Seoul, protestersContinue Reading
TROPICAL Times South Korea also experienced the longest stretch of tropic night on record, measuring 20.2 % of the time between June and August, triple the preceding average of 6.5 days, according to a media release from the KMA. The term” tropical evenings” refers to times when the heat doesContinue Reading
SEOUL: A monument court ruling that found South Korea’s environment goals were “unconstitutional” would certainly change major businesses and it would be easy to update targets that were ruled to be inadequate, a authorities minister said. In a significant victory for the younger climate activists who brought the case, theContinue Reading
BEIJING: Swathes of China logged the hottest August on record last month, the weather service said, as Japanese authorities announced that 2024 had been its warmest summer since records began. China is the leading emitter of the greenhouse gas emissions scientists say are driving global climate change. Beijing has pledgedContinue Reading
TOKYO: Japan suffered its joint warmest summer this year since records began, equalling the level seen in 2023, data from the weather office showed on Monday (Sep 2). Climate scientists have already predicted that 2024 will be the hottest year on record for the Earth because of a warming planet.Continue Reading
According to scientists in a report from World Weather Attribution, an organization that examines the link between climate change and extreme weather, Typhoon Gaemi’s wind speeds were around 14kmh , more intense, and its rainfall was up 14 % higher as a result of warmer sea temperatures. ” With global heatContinue Reading
In a remote northern Chinese plain, which was once the largest solar farm in the world, thousands of columns of gleaming sections blanket vast areas of scrubby dust at sunset. The solar park, which is located close to the forbidding Tengger desert, produces 1.5 gigawatts ( GW ) of power,Continue Reading