0428同步年報-2021-全

066 ACTIVITY REPORT 2021 Environmental and Earth Sciences O ver a century, the increased quality of life and economic profit of human beings were gained from the advanced scientific and industrial development and achievement. People have gained profit by the output of wastes to a clean environment, but we are gradually losing the balance of ecosystems like boiling the frog. Water, soil and air are crucial elements for the life of all creatures on this planet, but industrial wastes and plastic pollution are the toxic apples that we used to trade with the environment. Especially, the exhaust of chemical wastes, the permeation to the soil of the heavy-metal ions caused by recycling processing for electronic devices or elements in developing countries, and the discarded polymer product garbage are contaminating the clean water and soil, and which further endanger and poison the creatures on the Earth including highly intelligent human beings. Fortunately, we are developing higher and advanced technologies to try to slow this pollution and to prevent poisoning of the environment. NSRRC synchrotron- based technologies provide tomographic techniques on a nanometer scale and laterally resolved chemical images with a micrometer resolution, including endstations for an X-ray transmission microscope ( TLS 01B1 ), X-ray absorption spectra ( TLS 17C1 ) and Fourier-transform infrared-spectral imaging ( TLS 14A1 ), which would play a crucial role in resolving the environmental and ecological problems. (by Yao-Chang Lee)