Ecological conservation is one of the most important subjects right now. Fires in the Amazon, the bushfires in Australia, the rapid loss of glaciers, and the rising bouts of droughts have all made conservation of the environment a priority for the world. But most of the time, talks on conservation fail to take into account ...
Lunar New Year, also known as the Chinese New Year or Spring Festival, is the grandest festival in Taiwan. Shopping at the bazaars in Taiwan in the run-up to the Lunar New Year’s Eve is, therefore, something indispensable for almost every household. To celebrate the Year of the Rat and facilitate the general public to ...
Despite the prominent health threat posed by fine particulate pollution, especially in urban areas, fundamental aspects of its formation and evolution continue to elude scientists. This is true especially for the organic fraction of fine particles (also called aerosol), much of which forms as organic gases are oxidized by the atmosphere. Computer models under-predict this ...
A new species of feathered dinosaur has been discovered in China and described by American and Chinese authors in the journal The Anatomical Record. The one-of-a-kind specimen offers a window into what the Earth was like 120 million years ago. The fossil preserves feathers and bones that provide new information about how dinosaurs grew and ...
Nearly 100 people who practice Falun Gong in China were confirmed to have been killed by the communist authorities last year, according to a report. “Ninety-six Falun Gong practitioners in China were confirmed to have been persecuted to death for their faith in 2019, bringing the total confirmed death toll to 4,363 over the past 20 years ...
Located at Zhuolan (卓蘭) in central Taiwan’s Miaoli County (苗栗縣), the Hualu Flower Home Leisure Farm (花露休閒農場) is famous and it’s the largest flower leisure farm on the island. Covering an area of 3.2 hectares (7.9 acres), this organic flower leisure farm features beautiful gardens, cozy restaurants and cafés, a unique aroma boutique, and a nice ...
The discovery also points to food being shared and the use of wooden digging sticks to extract plants from the ground by early modern humans. Professor Lyn Wadley, a scientist from the Wits Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (Wits ESI), said: “The inhabitants of the Border Cave in the ...
Paper is one of the most used items in society. Papermaking has its origins in China, where paper has been in use for almost 2,000 years. In the 8th century, the art of papermaking spread from China to the Middle East and later into Europe. Papermaking The earliest examples of papermaking can be seen during ...
Nuclear power continues to expand globally, propelled, in part, by the fact that it produces few greenhouse gas emissions while providing steady power output. But along with that expansion comes an increased need for dealing with the large volumes of water used for cooling these plants. Such wastewater contains nuclear wastewater contaminants made up of ...
Rapa Nui (or Easter Island, as it is commonly known) is home to the enigmatic Moai, stone monoliths that have stood watch over the island landscape for hundreds of years. Their existence is a marvel of human ingenuity — and their meaning a source of some mystery. Ancient Rapanui carvers worked at the behest of ...
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