South Korea plans to boost annual production of environment-friendly cars by more than ten-fold by 2020 to cut carbon emissions and tap into a new export market, the country's trade ministry said o

A higher proportion of the Indians believe climate change to be a serious global challenge than the Chinese do, reveals a survey released by the Pew Research Center on Thursday.

Disaster management ministers from Japan, China and South Korea agreed Wednesday to strengthen cooperation on promoting a U.N. action plan adopted in March to respond to emergencies.

A South Korean man died of complications from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Sunday, in the first death linked to the virus in the country for more than three months.

South Korean climate change expert, Hoesung Lee, was on late Tuesday nightelected as the new chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), succeeding R K Pachauri who had to resign

Japan, China and South Korea agreed Sunday to enhance cooperation in ensuring stable food supply as they wrapped up a meeting of farm ministers that was held for the first time in nearly three and

By cities, the area of urban living forest per capita stood at only 4.35 square meters for Seoul, 5.29 square meters for Gyeonggi Province and 5.95 square meters for Incheon.

MIAMI – An experimental vaccine against the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, or MERS, has shown promise when tested on lab monkeys, researchers said Wednesday.

LONDON – Researchers in the United States trying to develop a vaccine against the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) virus say they have had early signs of success in animal experiments