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KU Leuven unveils climate-neutral BioScience Centre: A blueprint for the future of research infrastructure

KU Leuven has officially inaugurated its new BioScience Centre, a state-of-the-art research facility designed to set new international standards in sustainability, flexibility, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Located in Leuven’s Arenberg Science Park, the

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Animals—Living and Dead—Can Help Track Humanity’s Toxic Legacy

Natural history museum collections can help backfill environmental pollution data, a new study argues. In the early 20th century, more than a million miners in Britain made a daily descent into the depths of

1 week ago

Earth & Climate

Thousands set to converge on EU parliament for youth event

An estimated 8,500 16 to 30-year-olds from all over the world will this week take part in a series of activities centred on the future of Europe. EYE2025 (European Youth Event), as it

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Politics

Belgium sets ocean agenda as global report highlights alarming trends ahead of UNOC3

As the third UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3) begins in Nice, Belgium has outlined its positions on marine science, sustainable ocean policy, and high seas biodiversity protection. The conference opens against the backdrop

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Earth & Climate

Mayor of Ghent elected president of European city network

Mayor of Ghent Mathias De Clercq was on Friday in the Portuguese city Braga elected as president of Eurocities, the network of 222 cities in 38 countries. As an umbrella organisation, Eurocities

3 weeks ago

Earth & Climate·Politics

Flemish-led mangrove island in Ecuador shows rapid growth

Six months after Flemish dredging company Jan De Nul planted mangroves on a man-made island off the Ecuadorian coast, the project is showing remarkable success. Scientific monitoring now confirms that over 30,000

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Earth & Climate·Innovations

World on track for new heat record as climate disasters set to increase

According to a new report published on Wednesday by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), there is a very high likelihood that the world will break the 2024 global heat record within the

4 weeks ago

Earth & Climate

Foundation invests 280m euros in climate action and workplace mental health

The Helios Foundation, the successor to the Vinçotte Foundation, will invest the 280 million euros it gained from selling the inspection group Vinçotte into tackling two urgent issues: reducing CO2 emissions and

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Earth & Climate

EU assembles firefighting teams to support countries at risk of wildfires

The European Union has assembled teams of firefighters to assist European countries struggling with forest fires. A wildfire support team will also be established at the EU’s Emergency Response Coordination Centre, the

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Earth & Climate

Potato waste now fuels Belgian gas network

Belgian renewable energy company Green Logix has begun injecting biomethane directly into the country’s gas grid. At its facility in Lommel, Flanders, the gas is sent directly into the high-pressure network of

4 weeks ago

Innovations

Greenhouse gas emissions in Flanders fall to lowest level this century

On Thursday, Statistics Flanders reported that greenhouse gas emissions in the Flemish region fell to their lowest point of this century in 2023. These emissions were notably lower than in 2020, when

1 month ago

Earth & Climate

‘It’s a critical time’: European farmers struggle through driest spring in a century

Extreme weather costs the EU about €28.3bn in lost crops and livestock per year, more than half the losses stem from drought When drought descended on Hendrik Jan ten Cate’s farm in

1 month ago

Earth & Climate

University of Antwerp launches unique drone for climate research

The University of Antwerp launched a groundbreaking local climate study in Brasschaat using a specially equipped drone on Saturday. The device will fly autonomously over the De Inslag forest daily, with seven

2 months ago

Earth & Climate

Cell-cultivated chicken is made in the pictured tanks at the Eat Just office on July 27, 2023 in Alameda, Calif. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Across the Nation, Lawmakers Aim to Ban Lab-Grown Meat

Restricting the sale of protein cultured from animal cells, developed as a way to raise meat without the climate impacts of livestock, has become a trendy right-wing legislative focus in states from

1 year ago

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Climate

KU Leuven unveils climate-neutral BioScience Centre: A blueprint for the future of research infrastructure

Animals—Living and Dead—Can Help Track Humanity’s Toxic Legacy

Thousands set to converge on EU parliament for youth event

Belgium sets ocean agenda as global report highlights alarming trends ahead of UNOC3

Mayor of Ghent elected president of European city network

Flemish-led mangrove island in Ecuador shows rapid growth

World on track for new heat record as climate disasters set to increase

Foundation invests 280m euros in climate action and workplace mental health

EU assembles firefighting teams to support countries at risk of wildfires

Potato waste now fuels Belgian gas network

Greenhouse gas emissions in Flanders fall to lowest level this century

‘It’s a critical time’: European farmers struggle through driest spring in a century

University of Antwerp launches unique drone for climate research

Across the Nation, Lawmakers Aim to Ban Lab-Grown Meat

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