This is something you don’t see everyday in the city: four feral boars on a rampage. It all happened in the morning of Nov. 8, around apartment buildings, a school playground and even a department store. The bizarre sight would surely have made a great anecdote for the witnesses, but the damage and risk that the boars make every year have reached an alarming level, data show.According to a Ministry of Environment report, 381 sightings of feral boars were reported in downtown Seoul between 2011 a

WARSAW (AP) ― U.N. climate talks head into a tense final week Monday after the diplomatic effort to reduce global warming gases was hit by a series of setbacks, including Japan’s decision to ditch its voluntary emissions target.The two-decade-old negotiations have so far failed to achieve their goal of slashing emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases that scientists say are warming the planet. They don’t seem to be getting any closer after a tumultuous first week at this year’s session in Wa

Despite concerns that it has weakened its commitment, Korea remains determined to fight global warming by pushing through carbon reduction projects at home and boosting international cooperation, the nation’s ambassador for climate change said. In recent months, criticism has mounted over the new administration’s relative lack of interest in advancing Seoul’s much-touted climate initiative, which hit its stride under former President Lee Myung-bak with his 2008 “low carbon, green growth” vision.

  ULSAN -- An oil line transferring crude from a tanker to shore ruptured Sunday causing contamination off the coast of Ulsan.The Ulsan Coast Guard said the rupture took place at 4:45 a.m. when a 160,000-ton Panama registered tanker was transferring oil to a pipeline buoy."There was a crack in the oil line between the ship and the pipeline buoy that caused the oil to leak into the sea," an officer on site said. He said maritime authorities in the industrial city, located 414 kilometers southeast

Despite the protracted gridlock at U.N. climate talks, the international community should step up efforts to make its consumption and production patterns more resource-efficient to help tackle global warming, top environmental experts said. Sustainable consumption and production has emerged on the global environmental agenda in recent years in line with the growing weight of human factors as a prime driving force behind climate change. And the logic is simple: If resources are used efficiently,

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