The Trump Administration slapped a 10% tariff on a set of islands near Antartica. The problem? Most of the inhabitants are penguins.

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Some of the world’s weakest economies in Asia are among those hardest-hit in opening salvo of global trade war ...

For the past 20 years, the Washington Post’s David Ignatius has been the mainstream media’s leading apologist for the Central ...

Of the country’s 9,472 temporary wildfire monitors, more than 73 per cent are over the age of 60, according to the Korea ...

Research conducted by a KAIST team and Greenpeace a used climate modeling to calculate the increase of wildfire risk from the ...

Photos show daily life in remote parts of North Korea and its capital, Pyongyang. Slogans and propaganda are common sights on ...

As global temperatures soar, wildfires are intensifying in scale and causing havoc Climate change is not just a future threat — it is happening now.  All signs indicate that it will cause severe ...

A combination of an aging society and a reliance on temporary workers meant older people were disproportionately on the ...

Overnight rain helped douse some of South Korea’s worst-ever wildfires, authorities said today, as the death toll from the ...

After a week, efforts still continue to contain a fire that killed at least 28 people and destroyed tens of thousands of hectares of land ...

SEOUL, South Korea — The most destructive wildfires ever to hit South Korea were almost contained, authorities announced ...