Jeju Haenyeo — which translates to "women of the sea" — begin diving for seafood at around the age of 15, gathering abalone, ...

Past work from Ilardo has shown that nomadic Bajau divers in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines have especially large ...

The government announced a raft of aviation safety measures after a Jeju Air crash late last year that killed 179 people, ...

Scientists studying Korea’s Haenyeo divers have uncovered genetic traits linked to blood pressure and pain tolerance.

After a plane overshot a runway in South Korea, killing 179 people, a Times analysis found that global standards that help ...

From high-altitude climbers to divers who can fish without scuba gear, scientists are finding new ways that human bodies may ...

Ilardo has spent years studying human adaptations to extreme environments. In 2018, she and her colleagues published a paper ...

The second round of the high-level preparatory meeting for the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit kicked off ...

She learnt to freedive into the sea to harvest seafood like the 'sea women' of Jeju Island. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Trained and genetic differences could help the women survive the intense physiological stresses of free-diving—and could ...

A new analysis of a group of all-women extreme divers off the coast of Korea has uncovered genetic differences that could ...