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South Korea’s ‘sea women’ seek accountability for harbor damage to marine habitat

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By Andrew Jeong
| Eco-Business Verified
This fishing village, on the eastern coast of the Korean Peninsula, is filled with scars. Every summer, typhoons rumble in from the Pacific Ocean to snap trees and flip fishing boats. Huge ships, including a 4,000-ton cargo vessel in 2005, have sunk or run aground on the rocky coast, sullying marine food sources. In the 1950-1953 Korean War, dozens of villagers were massacred. Time and time again, however, the resilient residents of Guman-ri have figured out a way to soldier on.
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South Korea’s ‘sea women’ seek justice after marine habitat devastated by harbor work

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By Andrew Jeong
| Mongabay Verified
A community of hanyeo, South Korea’s free-diving women fishers, accuse a harbor project in their village of devastating the local marine habitat they’ve depended on for decades for their livelihoods. The women are demanding compensation from construction giant Ssangyong, taking their fight to Seoul after the loss of their traditional fishing grounds.
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Six things to know about Asia’s heatwave and the health impacts

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By Andrew Jeong
| Mongabay Verified
This year’s extreme weather has been linked to El Niño, which, according to weather experts, could be one of the strongest ever recorded. Record-breaking temperatures were recorded in South Korea and Hong Kong, and mercury exceeded 40°C in Japan and China. Apart from heatstroke risks, higher temperatures during El Niño can accelerate the life cycle of Aedes mosquitoes, which transmit dengue, and shorten the time for the virus to replicate, experts warn.
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