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Pregnancy exposure to pollution linked to asthma in infants By Tsai Shu-yuan and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer A study by China Medical University and the Academia Sinica Research Center for Environmental Changes suggests that babies born to women who were exposed to aerial heavy metal pollution during pregnancy might develop asthma. The study was published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in December last year. Researchers tracked the health records of 171,281 children born from 2004 to 2011 in Taichung, and correlated the data to a model reconstructio...

Lisa Ilboudo Nébié: Studying Food Security, Environmental Changes and Migration in West Africa This Q&A is part of a short series highlighting some of the Earth Institute’s women scientists as part of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11. Read more about the day and our related blog posts here. Elisabeth Ilboudo Nébié sits by one of the major dams of the Sondré-Est Pastoral Zone in the Center-South region of Burkina Faso in the rainy season. Livestock rely on this water for their subsistence, especially at the onset of the dry season when there is less wat...

Taiwan News Quick Take Nara to visit for exhibition Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara yesterday said he would visit Taiwan for his first solo exhibition in the nation. “My movements will be restricted for three weeks, but I have to go because I want to be involved in the preparations for the exhibition,” Nara wrote in Japanese on Twitter, a week after the exhibition was announced. Nara was referring to Taiwan’s 14-day quarantine and a seven-day self-health management period, during which people are advised to avoid visiting public spaces and wear a mask when they go out. Nara did not discl...

Academia Sinica launches air quality, climate change research centers 01/21/2021 06:40 PM Image courtesy of Academia Sinica Taipei, Jan. 21 (CNA) Taiwan's 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 institute's Research Center for Environmental Changes (RCEC) and will apply scientific analysis to issues of major social concern, Academia Sinica President James C. Liao (廖俊智) said. The Ai...