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“Long as I remember, the rain’s been coming down,” the song says. The last couple of weeks of wet certainly make it feel that way. The global media has recently observed the change of hitting a 1.5 Celsius degree rise in average temperatures in the next five years has risen to 50 percent. As many scientists have observed, once that level of warming is hit, the planet will reach a slew of tipping points. 1.5C is thus a major threshold. Nature has been sending us ever more urgent distress s...

More droughts and floods can be expected, with high-altitude forests dropping in size | 2022-03-01 17:55:00

Academia Sinica launches air quality, climate change research centers 01/21/2021 06:40 PM Image courtesy of Academia Sinica Taipei, Jan. 21 (CNA) Taiwans Academia Sinica on Wednesday announced the establishment of two new research centers devoted to the study of air quality and man-made climate change. The Air Quality Research Center and the Anthropogenic Climate Change Center will operate under the institutes Research Center for Environmental Changes (RCEC) and will apply scientific analysis t...