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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...

My goals were straightforward. I’d ride my motorcycle from my home in Tainan along back-country roads into Kaohsiung’s Tianliao (田寮) and Cishan (旗山) districts, then loop back through Yanchao (燕巢). I had a short list of places I wanted to visit along the way, and I was confident I’d stumble across a few more points of interest. Turning off Provincial Highway 19A (19甲), I veered northeast on Tainan Local Road 163 (南163) until I saw a sign for Daping (大坪). Like 163, this s...

Kaohsiung outlines plans for wells Staff writer, with CNA Kaohsiung is hoping to complete the drilling of seven wells by Friday to provide much-needed water to the city amid a serious shortage, the Kaohsiung City Government said yesterday. When completed, the wells are expected to provide 21,000m3 of groundwater a day, which would be channeled into the Chengcing Lake Reservoir (澄清湖水庫) via underground pipes, the city government said. Two wells have been dug since late on Monday after ...

Botulism suspected behind bird deaths: Pingtung official By Chen Yen-ting / Staff reporter Sightings of dead ducks and other large birds in wetland areas in Pingtung County’s Donggang Township (東港) have sparked concern among local wildlife advocates and led to calls for immediate action by authorities. An outbreak of botulism, caused by the neurotoxin-producing Clostridium botulinum, last year caused the death of a large number of wild birds near the mouth of the Kaoping River (高屏�...