Parts of South Korea and Japan have had short rainy seasons this year. Scientists say that climate change has helped make the ...

Human-caused climate crisis doubled the chances of the extreme weather that fuelled South Korea’s deadliest wildfires, a new study has found. The fires, which broke out in southeast Korea on 22 ...

Last month, South Korea’s Constitutional Court held that the country’s current climate measures were insufficient for safeguarding citizens’ rights, particularly those of younger generations ...

South Korea's worst ever wildfires in March were made twice as likely as a result of climate change and such disasters could become even more frequent if temperatures continue to rise, scientists ...

President Trump announced Monday his administration would impose a 25 percent tariff on imports from South Korea and Japan ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s top court said Thursday that the climate change law did not protect basic human rights and lacks targets to shield future generations, in a landmark ruling ...

After emerging from the 1950-53 war with North Korea, South Korea emerged as one of the 20th century’s most remarkable economic success stories, becoming a developed, globally connected, high ...

The ruling in South Korea followed the German Federal Constitutional Court’s 2021 landmark ruling, which mandated stronger action on climate to protect the rights of future generations.

Unseasonably high temperatures have swept across South Korea and Japan, contributing to dangerous wildfire conditions from March 21, 2025, to March 26, 2025. Human-caused climate change has ...

The case — known as "Woodpecker et al. v. South Korea" after the in-utero nickname of an embryo, now toddler, involved — included four petitions by children. In 2021, South Korea made a legally ...

DAEJEON, South Korea — Starting at 5 a.m. each day, dozens of trucks bring more than 400 tons of stinky, sticky food waste from restaurants and homes to a facility the size of two football ...