This hedging is understandable. China is South Korea’s largest trade partner by far. It does more business with China than with its second- and third-biggest partners, America and Japan, combined.

Over 346,000 fire hotspots recorded in South America this year, surpassing 2007 record Brazil and Bolivia deploy thousands of firefighters, struggle against extreme weather Smoke from fires ...

While the conditions have existed in South America before, the frequency at which the fire-risk days are happening today "cannot be compared what used to be normal in the 80s," Cordero said.

Parts of South America are experiencing abnormally hot temperatures – despite being in the depths of winter – as the combination of human-caused climate change and the arrival of El Niño feed ...

A heat dome that baked parts of South America in late September was made much more likely and at least 1.4 degrees Celsius (2.5 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter by climate change ...

South America has seen a quarter million cases this year, as climate change is a boon for the mosquitoes that spread it. A study about how the virus infects cells could help inform future treatments.