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The study indicates that disasters including drought, floods are contributing to internal migration

Without plans to mitigate and adapt to climate change, Taiwan could face serious challenges in the years ahead, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) said on Tuesday after the publication of a major UN climate change report. The ministry said in a statement that its latest study indicated that human-induced global warming could disrupt local ecosystems and the lives of Taiwanese. There could be more extreme weather, including stronger typhoons, more severe droughts and torrential rain, t...

Taipei, March 1 (CNA) Without plans to mitigate and adapt to climate change, Taiwan could face serious challenges in the years ahead, the Ministry of Science and Technology said Tuesday, one day after the publication of a major United Nations climate change report.

ABB has been awarded a contract worth around $30 million by the Canadian data and analytics company EarthDaily Analytics Corp. (EDA) to develop and manufacture next-generation multispectral imaging systems to be placed on 10 satellites (including an in-orbit spare) that will circle the Earth. The order was booked in the first quarter of 2022.

Is evolution a rapid process, happening “all around us all the time”? Evolutionists point to an example of the horn size of Alberta bighorn sheep that has decreased due to trophy hunting.

The first Monday of this year was also the first day of the twelfth month on the traditional lunisolar calendar. As they do at the start of every lunar month — and again on the fifteenth day — countless people across Taiwan positioned circular braziers in front of their homes, and set about burning sheaves of joss paper. The ritual burning of incense and joss paper (which English speakers sometimes call ghost money, spirit money or votive currency) is central to local religious and ancestor-...

An air quality monitoring station has been set up in Taichung to determine the composition of air pollutants in the city, researchers said on Sunday. The Surface Air Pollution Research Station, which was established by Academia Sinica’s Research Center for Environmental Changes and the Taichung City Environmental Protection Bureau at a cost of NT$100 million (US$3.62 million), would collect and analyze air samples over the next four years, said Charles Chou (周崇光), CEO of the center’s ...

The quality of wastewater and the effects of nitrogen has been the focus of a study from the University of Reg...

In due course, up to 118 million extremely poor people in Africa will be exposed to drought, floods, extreme heat and other maladies.

The spiders were preserved in amber.