New Scientist

AUGUST 18, 2023

A container ship on its way from South Korea to Denmark is using methanol fuel that reduces emissions – although future fuels may be greener

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

By Hangyun Kim JEJU ISLAND, South Korea—Seventy-year-old Hwang Gyesook has been diving into the chilly waters of the Korea Strait off Jeju Island for more than 45 years. The Navy has confirmed that construction of the base damaged the corals. Jeju’s female divers, the Haenyeo, have noticed, as have marine scientists.

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Nanotech

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Law Library of Congress published a November 2023 report entitled Selected Issues in Biotechnology Regulation: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, England, European Union, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan that provides an overview of the main statutes and policies governing selected (..)

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Inside Climate News

MAY 4, 2022

By Georgina Gustin As government leaders and forestry experts gathered in South Korea this week to discuss the state of the world’s forests, new research suggests that ambitious international efforts to curb deforestation are making insufficient progress and the planet’s trees continue to disappear.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 9, 2024

After the institutionalization of South Korean-Japanese-US trilateral security ties and Japan’s decision to raise its defense budget to 2% of GDP, an East Asian security bloc designed to counter China is emerging. And it would certainly lead to a much more nervous and aggressive North Korea.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 5, 2024

South Korean court orders Japanese firms to compensate more wartime Korean workers for forced labor AP News PaulaR Fri, 01/05/2024 - 13:03 Thursday, December 21, 2023 Read more Hyng-Jin Kim SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s top court ordered two Japanese companies to financially compensate more of their wartime Korean workers for forced labor, (..)

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

Chambers Asia-Pacific spans the region's largest and smallest jurisdictions, including Australia, India, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Nepal, Afghanistan, and nine Pacific Island nations. The below practices were recognized by Chambers Asia-Pacific : Dispute Resolution: International Firms—South Korea.

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Corp Watch

AUGUST 15, 2023

South Koreans Protest Against Fukushima Nuclear Water Release teleSUR/ JF pratap Tue, 08/15/2023 - 23:33 Sunday, August 13, 2023 [link] News > South Korea Published 13 August 2023 Opinion Wallabag ID 17077522

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 4, 2022

In a new study, scientists have investigated the concentration of microplastics in road dust in Goyang city, South Korea. Microplastics and microparticles are harmful pollutants that can cause health issues in city populations. Their findings have been published online this week in the journal Sustainability.

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Legal Planet

MAY 23, 2022

Coal is a major industry in Australia, which has a rich supply and is well-situated to supply Japan, India and South Korea. These measures won’t make Australia a climate star, but they will help it clean up its act. Changing Australia’s trajectory will not be easy. Coal exports are 3.5% of total GDP. As in the U.S.,

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Environmental Leader

JULY 26, 2022

L'Oréal Group’s North Asia Zone is the first of the company’s zones worldwide to achieve carbon neutrality across five geographic markets of Mainland China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

to pursue a joint venture for producing clean hydrogen and carbon black products in South Korea. Monolith, a leader in clean hydrogen and materials production, today announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SK Inc.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Following in the footsteps of South Korea and Japan. China’s move follows that of South Korea and Japan earlier this year. Jinping was also silent on what many climate advocates wanted to know; whether there would be a change in policy for coal power plants inside China.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Chambers Asia-Pacific spans the region's largest and smallest jurisdictions, including Australia, India, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Nepal, Afghanistan, and nine Pacific Island nations. The below practices were recognized by Chambers Asia-Pacific : Dispute Resolution: International Firms—South Korea.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 3, 2023

This January, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared that his country may consider acquiring nuclear weapons if North Korea continues expanding its arsenal.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2024

Or North Korea? There was no discussion at the Republican hearing on who the gas produced by Pennsylvania workers should be sold to-- China, Iran, North Korea or other unfriendly nations-- other than exports would provide an economic boost to the state and benefit those other economies. But selling oil and natural gas to China?

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Physics World

APRIL 14, 2022

Now, physicists in South Korea have refined this idea further, experimentally demonstrating a three-way information split in quantum measurements. A strange feature of quantum systems is that observing them inherently changes their quantum state. Preserving three-way information using photons.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

PRACTICE AREAS Arbitration (International)–Global Market Leaders; Latin America - International Counsel Bankruptcy/Restructuring: Highly Regarded–USA Capital Markets–Latin America - International Counsel Capital Markets: Securitisation: ABS–USA Commercial and Corporate Litigation–United Kingdom Competition/Antitrust– (..)

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Legal Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

in Japan and South-Korea.” An article last year in the science journal Nature estimated that “with solar energy accounting for 25 to 80% of the electricity mix, land occupation [ranges] from 0.5 of total territory in the EU, 0.3 in India, and 1.2

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Physics World

JULY 27, 2021

To begin to learn more about how microplastics interact with the body, researchers in South Korea turned to functional imaging. In some animal studies , exposures to large amounts of microplastics have been associated with inflammation, metabolic disruptions, increased cancer risk and other adverse health effects.

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Physics World

MARCH 22, 2022

China is now operating at the frontier, along with several other nations, including the US and a number of European nations, Japan and South Korea.” “We need to think about scientific capability, not as a race, but as a frontier of knowledge,” Wagner told Physics World.

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Environmental Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

An EPA administrative law judge ordered a commercial recycling company to pay $16,000 for unlawfully exporting spent lead acid batteries to China and South Korea in 2015. Wed, 11/02/2022 - 12:48. 07/25/2017. Case Number. RCRA-02-2016-7103. 47 ELR 47908.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Wilkinson said the use of natural gas as a transition fuel should be for a “relatively short” time because you can’t be serious about achieving global climate goals by burning gas “in power plants in Japan and South Korea, et cetera.”

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

These cases, and pending cases in South Korea , Canada , the European Court of Human Rights , and Italy , face down a daunting question: what is a country’s “fair share” of effort to combat climate change? South Korea is especially obligated to reduce its emissions, since its per capita CO2 emissions are 2.7

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 18, 2023

PA Statewide Abandoned Mine Reclamation Conference Oct. 24-26 In Altoona [PaEN] -- Schuylkill Action Network Abandoned Mine Drainage Workgroup Meeting July 25, In-Person, Zoom -- Crop Exhibits, Solar Energy, Hay Contest Featured At Penn State Ag Progress Days Aug.

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Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

The sessions promise to be a hub of innovation and exchange. They will offer a unique perspective from some of the world’s foremost thinkers that push the boundaries of what’s possible.

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Physics World

JUNE 4, 2022

The second – from researchers in South Korea – describes the discovery and synthesis of a hitherto unpredicted “holey graphyne”. Computational modelling established that it could be stable, says Hyoyoung Lee of Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea, so his team set out to develop a synthesis protocol. “We

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Dispute Resolution: International Firm–South Korea. Jun Hee Kim –Dispute Resolution: International Firms (South Korea). James Lee –Dispute Resolution: International Firms (South Korea). Corporate Investigations–Latin America-wide. Disputes (International & Cross-Border)–USA.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The announcement received criticism from fishermen, local residents, and neighboring countries like China and South Korea. The Associated Press that the plant’s operator announced plans earlier this year to slowly release the treated water beginning in the spring of 2023.

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Physics World

JUNE 17, 2022

In some places – notably Japan and South Korea – blossom festivals are vital for local economies, so it is important that organizers get their timings right. Around the world from Kyoto to Washington DC, people enjoy the blossoming of cherry trees as a rite of spring.

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Physics World

JUNE 22, 2021

A new kind of phase separation that occurs when self-propelled particles are subject to torque has been discovered by researchers in South Korea and the US. The team in Korea has spent years studying active matter using Janus particles in a liquid solvent. Janus particles: a model non equilibrium system.

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Frontiers

MARCH 14, 2023

Read original article Download original article (pdf) The first known chytridiomycosis epizootics occurred in the late 1970s and early 1980s in western North America, in the late 1990s in Central America and Australia, and in the early 2000s in South America. of samples were infected in Burundi.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 16, 2021

In the earlier experiments, Lebing Chen , a condensed-matter physicist at Rice University in the US, together with colleagues in the UK and South Korea, found such Dirac magnons in CrI 3. This property would make them interesting for spintronics applications as well.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2024

[On February 28, Ohio US Senator Sherrod Brown and Oregon US Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Protecting American Households from Rising Energy Costs Act , legislation that would ban the export of crude oil or liquefied natural gas (LNG) to our biggest adversaries: China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Or North Korea?

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Physics World

AUGUST 19, 2021

Recently, a team of researchers from South Korea, the UK and the US developed soft scalp electronics for real-time brain interfacing and motor image acquisition. Such technologies involve connecting external devices with electrical outputs from the brain to facilitate communication between humans and computers.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 23, 2023

By Jeremy Williams I was on holiday on the South Coast this summer, and when I’m by the sea I like to read about it. Asia already has ocean farms , including mechanised ones in places such as South Korea, and 97% of seaweed production happens in Asia. At sea, we are still Stone Age hunter-gatherers,” says Doumeizel.

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Physics World

MAY 10, 2022

Researchers in the US, UK and South Korea have designed a wireless, implantable optoelectronic device that can effectively deliver photodynamic therapy (PDT) to cancer cells.

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