<strong>July 11 to July 17</strong>
Ash and a putrid stench filled the air of eastern Taipei as the 53.86m high “Neihu Garbage Mountain” caught fire on July 13, 1984.
Firefighters in gas masks battled the flames for days, but the blaze only grew as the trash underneath soaked up the water and produced more bog gas as fuel.
Meanwhile, trucks continued to haul in load after load of the city’s waste.
“Where else can we put it?” an official told a Chinese Television System (華視) reporter. “It’s so hot out. If
In Taiwan, as in other countries that have experienced rapid industrialization, one downside of development has been the degradation of its rivers.
To some extent, this has been a result of people turning their backs on the streams that watered their ancestors’ fields and the creeks where their grandmothers washed clothes. Once tap water was available, and road bridges crossed major waterways, urban residents no longer had any reason to think about rivers unless they needed a place to dump waste that couldn’t be burned.
Industrial, agricultural and municipal pollution has done enormous damage to riparian ecosystems, or river banks. Heavy
In almost every part of the world, the mean sea level (MSL) is rising for three reasons, all of which are linked to the planet getting hotter. Firstly, water expands as it heats up. Secondly, glaciers around the world are in retreat. Thirdly, the ice sheets that cover Greenland and Antarctica are shrinking, and scientists fear they could collapse with catastrophic consequences for oceanfront cities throughout the world.
In August last year, the Taiwan branch of Greenpeace, the global non-governmental environmental organization, warned that, by 2050, close to 4 percent of the country’s land could be inundated due to rising sea
Taipei, April 25 (CNA) There will be sporadic rainfall throughout Taiwan on Sunday as a wet weather system from southern China approaches, with more rain in the eastern region than in other places, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) forecast.