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CHAMPION TREES: The team used light detection and ranging imaging to locate the tree, and found that it measured a height of 84.1m and had a girth of 8.5mBy Yang Yuan-ting / Staff reporter

PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLENGE: After pinpointing the tree with laser imaging, a mission to the site carrying a costly camera rig braved tough conditions to capture imagesBy Yang Yuan-ting and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporters, with staff writer

Every nation has one, that wonderful place that doesn’t appear to show up much on tourist itineraries, except for a few well known tourist spots. Growing up in Michigan in the 70s, it was the state’s Upper Peninsula, one of America’s best-kept secrets. In Taiwan, that seems to be Miaoli County. The government markets Miaoli’s Hakka culture, and there are a few odd places, such as the Longteng Viaduct, wrecked in an earthquake, and the nearby Shengsing (勝興) Train Station, which are t...

Hydroelectricity is the lowest-cost clean energy source that can be started up quickly, generating electricity as easily as turning on a tap. This is critical to the stability of the nation’s power system, especially when coupled with pumped-storage hydroelectricity. The Dajia River (大甲溪) in central Taiwan is the nation’s only river with a series of reservoirs and hydropower plants, from upstream to downstream, making full use of the energy of flowing water to generate electricity. The...

Three Taichung city councilors on Monday urged the local Water Resource Bureau to step up development of subsurface streams as alternative water sources in the wake of a severe water shortage in the city in the first half of the year. Taichung uses 1.4 million tonnes of water daily, with the Dajia River (大甲溪) and the Liyutan Reservoir (鯉魚潭) each providing half that amount, said Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Taichung City Councilor Chiang Chao-kuo (江肇國), accompanied by tw...

摘要：     孔孟之乡网消息 近年来，兖州市按照“森林城市，生态乡村”的目标定位，持续优化生态环境，全市森林覆盖率达到30.6%，为城乡居民提供了绿色生态宜居空间。     为了让市民出门就能见到绿树，兖州在新建改造九州广场、太阳广场、大禹绿地等城市大型公共活动场所时，最大限度地保留了原有树木。现在该市拥有绿地公园20多处，这些绿地公园空间充足、基...