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The western Pacific - to the north of the equator, is a breeding ground for the largest concentration of tropical cyclones on the planet. The Philippines is the country that is most exposed to these devastating storms and is hit by twenty cyclones on average each year.

By Lee Minji SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has berated loca...

North Korea appeared to be on alert early Friday, airing rare overnight weather forecasts for Typhoon Khanun as it headed north after arriving on the Korean Peninsula the previous day.

Climate troubles loom for South Korea’s ‘Christmas Tree Island’ Hahna Yoon © Photograph by Jin Kim Abies koreana growing on Hallasan Mountain, South Korea. Koreans buy this fir species—which is cultivated in nurseries—to decorate their homes at Christmas. In the wild, though, the slow-growing tree is threatened by climate change. On the tallest mountain in South Korea lives a small population of fir trees nicknamed the Christmas Tree Forest. The evergreen conifer looks much like the classic fir that many people worldwide bring into their homes at this time of year...

It began as a tempest, the likes of which Nancy Behm had never felt in more than 70 years of living in Blue River, Oregon. “East winds are always a little spooky. They’re different creatures,” Behm says. “But this was very, very intense. And I could hear trees and branches cracking, breaking, falling.” The storm was somehow soothing, though, and Behm fell asleep to the sounds it made against the walls of the old farm home her parents had built back in 1953. At midnight Behm woke to a call from her grandson. “There’s a fire at Holiday Farm,” he told her. “You need to evacuate...