Honeybees, an insect that played an innovative role in plant reproduction, began to disappear in a chain in the United States in 2006. The U.S. named the disappearance a ‘honeycomb colony collapse.’ Likewise, 8 billion honeybees died in Korea from November 2021 to March this year. This is a global p

On September 13, 2022, Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman, was arrested by police for not wearing a hijab properly. Amini died on September 16, three days after her detention. The bereaved families claimed that Amini was beaten to death by police based on the scars left on Amini’s body. However, Iranian

President Biden signed into law the United States Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on August 16. The IRA is a law designed to alleviate soaring inflation in the U.S. The bill’s primary purpose is to invest $485 billion over ten years in energy security, climate change, health care, and deficit deductio

Air temperatures on Earth have been rising since industrialization. It means global warming is getting worse. Due to global warming, the world is suffering severe damage. Abnormal weather patterns and natural disasters have frequently appeared this year. First, flooding related to La Niña caused a l

Sri Lanka has run out of foreign reserves. In April, Sri Lanka defaulted on $51 billion of failing foreign debts. People suffer from a shortage of food, fuel, and medicine to live. Thousands of protesters demanded that the dictatorship withdraw. As a result, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was ousted.

A ‘TurkAegean’ tourism campaign has elicited anger from Greece. The 50-year-old sovereignty conflict between Turkey and Greece over the area is escalating. Last year, Turkey coined the word ‘TurkAegean’ by combining the name of their country and the Aegean Sea. Turkey applied for trademark registrat

Recently, Japan has been striving to realize a constitutional amendment to justify the activities of its Self-Defense Forces, which are theoretically illegal. The Japan Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has consistently tried to make a constitutional amendment. Especially, the LDP emphasized specifying

On March 31, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law requiring unfriendly countries to pay for Russian gas purchases in rubles from April 1. Additionally, Putin warned that Russia would stop supplying gas to countries that do not pay in rubles for gas purchases. On April 3, the Kremlin announc

A new type of investment bond, the ‘Rhinoceros Bond,’ has emerged. This was created to preserve the black rhinoceros, an endangered species. The black rhino lives in South Africa, Kenya, and Tanzania and is the most endangered species announced by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (

A new U.S.’ passport gender marker announced on March 31. Only male (M) and female (F) markers previously existed. Gender ‘X’ was added for non-binary, intersex, and gender non-conforming individuals. U.S. citizens can choose X on their passport application from April 11. The gender X marker will al

In February 2022, the war began when Russia invaded Ukraine. The war has created numerous casualties and refugees. In addition, the war has caused significant economic losses around the world, one of the major economic shocks being rising oil prices. As Russian crude oil was banned due to sanctions

In the 21st century, problems associated with aging populations are becoming more severe. The United Nations (U.N.) said China’s working-age population is decreasing by about 40 million between 2010 and 2021. Also, Italy has the world’s second-highest aging rate after Japan. And in Korea, the number

Have you ever received a sandwich without lettuce or a hamburger without fries? The supply chain mess continues because of COVID-19, and recently, the ingredients needed for our meals are frequently reducing or gradually becoming more expensive. You might feel that meal prices have risen. The Food P

The 24th Beijing Winter Olympics was held in Beijing on February 4. For 16 days of events, 2,861 people from 91 countries participated. Many people were looking forward to the Beijing Winter Olympics under the slogan ‘Together for a Shared Future.’ Regrettably, the events were plagued by many proble

Recently, China’s power shortage has been severe. Experts say that it was caused by diplomatic friction with Australia that made China retaliate economically, banning imports of Australian coal. However, this strategy adversely affected China because failure to replace Australian coal has led to pow

Corporate and even hospital computing systems were paralyzed, all due to ransomware attacks. Ransomware is a type of malicious software that threatens to publish or blocks access to data or a computer system, usually by encrypting it, until the victim pays a ransom fee to the attacker. In many cases

Have you ever dreamed of going on a trip to space? Anyone in their childhood would have dreamed of seeing all the stars and planets on a trip to space at least once, and that dream might come true today. Since Yuri Gagarin succeeded in the first flight to space and Neil Armstrong took the first step

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, about two years have passed. Globally, there have been various efforts to prevent infections. Many countries have relied on vaccinations to form nationwide herd immunity. Now, pharmaceutical companies are devoted to developing oral antiviral medicines. Molnupiravir, j

China, which has the world’s largest population, is expected to abolish its birth control policy this year. This is because the birth rate has continued to fall even after removing the one-child policy in 2016. The key for China, which has adopted the dual circulation development strategy centered o

On July 21, Dubai sprayed artificial rainfall to cool down the heatwave near 50 degrees Celsius. Dubai receives only about 100mm of annual precipitation. Dubai has spent about $15 million since 2017 to study artificial rainfall to solve these problems. Dubai’s artificial rainfall method is different