Annual greenhouse gas emissions in Taiwan reached a record high in 2017. Although estimates indicate that annual emissions have fallen since then, stronger action is needed for Taiwan to reach its 2050 target of a 50 per cent reduction relative to 2005 levels. This report argues that carbon pricing alongside …
A research team at National Taiwan University (NTU) has rolled out a tiny low-budget device that can sense earthquakes within 30 seconds, enough time to issue crucial disaster warnings, NTU Geosciences Department researcher and lead inventor Wu Yih-min said on Thursday. According to a private TV channel, Wu said the …
A research team at Taiwan's top university has rolled out a tiny low-budget device that can sense earthquakes within 30 seconds, enough time to issue crucial disaster warnings, the lead inventor said on Monday. The metal tool the size of a tape deck can detect an oncoming quake's speed and …
The bus rapid transit (BRT) system, which had received a shot in the arm from an internationally renowned transport expert not very long ago, has got yet another encouragement in the form of an award from a Taiwan-based organisation. According to official sources, Delhi chief secretary Rakesh Mehta has left …
Eighteen seamen are missing and another was killed by a shark after their fishing boat was swamped by high waves off Taiwan on Monday, the island's coast guard said. The coast guard had rescued another nine crew members from the 993-tonne boat, agency spokesman Hsieh Ching-ching said. High winds whipped …
A slow-moving typhoon that hit Taiwan over the weekend, dumping up to 1,400 mm (55 inches) of rain in some areas, killed 12 people and left 10 missing in a tunnel collapse, mudslides and raging rivers, officials said. Typhoon Sinlaku hit Taiwan on Saturday with wind gusts as high as …
Four people were killed and seven reported missing on Monday after Typhoon Sinlaku brought winds of up to 160 kph (100 mph) to Taiwan, causing a section of bridge to collapse and a fatal mudslide. Seventeen people were injured around the island as the typhoon dumped as much as 1,400 …
Because of the high concentration of heavy metals in the sediment sludge produced from industrial wastewater treatment, direct disposal of this sludge in landfill sites will cause serious soil and groundwater pollution. Traditionally, the industrial sludge in Taiwan is first solidified and the products need to pass through the toxicity …
treating drinking tap water with chlorine makes it bacteria-free. But its by-products may increase the risk of abnormalities among newborns, says a recent study. Researchers studied data on 400,000 infants in Taiwan and by products of chlorine in the water separately from 2001-03. Using these two sets of data, the …
The objective of this study was to evaluate the association between arsenic exposure through drinking water and the occurrence of pterygium in southwestern Taiwan.
BEIJING: At least three dozen villages and towns in southwest China remained cut off from the outside world Thursday as tens of thousands of soldiers and emergency workers struggled against impassable roads and mountains of concrete and brick to reach the 40,000 people that officials say are still buried in …
CPC Corporation of Taiwan, the state-owned oil company, said yesterday it hoped to resume joint oil exploration soon with China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) in the Taiwan Strait, which divides the self-governing island from the Chinese mainland. The plan reflects hopes that a warmer political climate between Beijing and …
point of origin The first humans on the North and South American continents came from eastern Siberia, not Asia and Polynesia as is believed. Researchers at the University of Michigan, USA, examined the DNAs of 29 populations of native North, Central and South American people to arrive at this conclusion. …
In recent years, the growing international trade in agricultural products has motivated farmers to pay close attention to pest quarantine problems and agrochemical residues in foods. Agrochemical residues in agricultural products are a major consumer health concern and can seriously damage trade between countries. The Taiwan government has established a …
Malaysia has lifted a ban on the export of long-tailed macaques in a bid to thin its monkey population, which has become a menace in its cities. "The cabinet has decided to lift the ban which was imposed in 1984 on the capture and export of this type of monkey,' …
of the worlds major biologically diverse zones, the Eastern and Western Ghats of India are among the richest, providing natural conservation to many unknown species of plants and animals. They chronicle many undisclosed stories of evolution. Adding another feather to the biodiversity hotspot of the Western Ghats, entomologists have discovered …
Settlement with Naveda: The US Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a US $60.7 million Clean Air Act settlement with a Las Vegas-based company Nevada Power. As per the settlement, the company will improve air quality at its Clark power generating station by reducing air pollutants …
A 25-year-long battle in Taiwan between the area's government and indigenous people has culminated with the government agreeing to shut down a nuclear waste dump in Orchid Island by 2016. The island, about 65 km off Taiwan's southeast coast, is home to indigenous communities and has long been used to …
If the Doha Round of negotiations of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is stalemated, a great part of it is because of the resistance of small farmers, including those in Asia. One of the terrible truths of the 20th century is that it was a blight on small farmers or …
