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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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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Arnold Porter

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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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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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

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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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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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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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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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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The key areas are the west coast of the US, the southeast coast of Australia and South Korea representing the majority of the remaining capacity. Looking outside of Europe the majority of floating offshore capacity are in the early stages of planning.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Climate groups in South Asia and across the world are demanding urgent climate action at COP26. South Asia is home to nearly a quarter of the world’s population , and to some of the countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Where South Asia stands before COP26. Photo credit: Pacific Press Media Production Corp.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 16, 2017

China, India and South Korea are. . But let us leave India and China for a while and concentrate on South Korea where the newly elected President, Moon Jae-in, has announced that his country will close ten of its coal-fired plants permanently within the next five years.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 25, 2021

Signed two years ago, the legally binding agreement has now been ratified by the United States, Russia, Norway, Canada, the Kingdom of Denmark (in respect to Greenland), Iceland, China, South Korea, Japan and the European Union. Never miss an update! Sorry, but we failed to add you to the list. Enter Your Email.loading.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

million tonnes emitted for South Korea’s Pyeongchang Games in 2018. Total greenhouse gas emissions could reach 1.028 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent throughout the preparation and post-Beijing Games in 2016-2022, and about a third less than the 1.6

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Subnational governments of Brazil, Bolivia, South Korea, Germany, Spain, Canada, Nigeria, and the United States are among the signatories of the coalition. The goal of the coalition is to enable a space of collaboration to implement actionable and effective solutions for methane emissions abatement. However, much work is needed.

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Brag

JUNE 10, 2021

” Supported by the governments of India, Morocco, the United Kingdom, Singapore, France, Ghana, and South Korea, Mission Innovation aims to accelerate the Paris Agreement progress toward net zero emissions.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

We are now seeing this effect as we watch South Africa axe hectares of water-loving non-native trees to reclaim billions of liters of lost water. Take it from the Republic of Korea. Turning bare land into a green nation”: How South Korea recovered its degraded forests. Journal of Ecology and Environment , 43 (1), 18.

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Physics World

APRIL 25, 2021

A graphene-based “beam splitter” for electronic currents has been built by researchers in France, South Korea, and Japan. Created by Preden Roulleau at the University of Paris and colleagues, the tuneable device’s operation is directly comparable that of an optical interferometer.

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Breezometer

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

A study in South Korea analyzed 18,921 patients admitted to Seoul hospitals for migraines between 2008 and 2014. Barometric pressure changes seem to represent a particularly common weather-related cause, affecting an estimated 73% of all migraine sufferers. The Links Between Air Pollution & Migraines.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Elastomers that undergo large spectral shifts in colour when stretched very little have been developed by researchers in the US and South Korea. The material scientists say that these liquid crystalline elastomers with an unusually large Poisson’s ratio could have a variety of uses, from visual displays to smart windows.

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Water Research & Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Yong is a Professor at Korea University, South Korea, and Director, APRU Sustainable Waste Management. His research interests include urbanization and water resources, green infrastructure, nature-based solutions and water management. Yong Sik Ok.

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Frontiers

MARCH 14, 2022

However, researchers in South Korea have published a paper in Frontiers in Neuroscience putting forward hopeful findings that suggest a new treatment method could be possible for subacute and chronic tinnitus. While ranging in severity, between 0.5%

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 29, 2022

And indeed, at this year’s Our Ocean Conference, we saw two new governments join the GGGI: The Government of Spain and the Government of the Republic of Korea—bringing our total number of Government partners to the GGGI to 20. © For example, in 2019 Norway and SeaBOS joined the Global Ghost Gear Initiative (GGGI).

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