A polluted stream in Daegu has residents concerned about an industrial zone's impact on the environment and their health.

South Korea's highest court has removed the country's president ... says that argument doesn't hold water. NOH HEE BUM: (Through interpreter) For the president to say that he sent armed forces to the ...

The growth of extreme wildfire activity is being driven by climate change while resources to fight disasters are being diverted to preparations for war.

Together with the wildfires in Sancheong-gun, South Gyeongsang Province ... The Ministry of the Interior and Safety's Central Disaster Safety Countermeasures Center and the Korea Forest Service did ...

SUWON, South Korea — Five U.S. Army helicopters slung with firefighting gear pitched in to help curb the worst wildfires in South Korea’s history, according to U.S. Forces Korea on Friday.

Rain and cooler temperatures are helping South Korean fire crews as they battle the country’s worst-ever wildfires as the governor of the hardest-hit region called for overhauling response strategies ...

Helicopters dumped water over a burning forest in South Korea on Thursday as fire crews struggled to ... Lee Han-kyung, deputy head of the government’s disaster response center, told a meeting ...

It comes as the governor of the hardest-hit region called for overhauling response strategies to respond to the climate crisis that he says worsened the disaster ... in the mountains in Cheongsong, ...

Wildfires raging in South Korea doubled in size on Thursday from a day earlier, as authorities called the blazes the country's worst natural fire disaster with at least 28 people killed and ...

disaster and safety division chief said, adding that the fire was still spreading "rapidly". The extent of damage makes it South Korea's largest ever wildfire, after an inferno in April 2000 that ...

More than 80 helicopters started flying at daybreak on Friday to dump water, the safety ministry said. South Korea relies on helicopters to fight forest fires because of its mountainous terrain.