The exchanges between the ocean, cryosphere, and atmosphere in the Southern Ocean play a pivotal role in the Earth’s Climate by driving the storage and redistribution of heat, freshwater, and CO2. However, our understanding of the processes at play is limited due to the scarcity of in-situ observations.

Séminaire expert: Integrated Water Resource Management: A reality check from the Global South par Kim Vercruysse, Joint for Water  

Global Mapping and quantification oflong-term annual forest loss is mainly assessed through 30-m resolution opticalimagery (Vancutsem et al., 2021; Hansen et al., 2013), providing large-scaleconsistent information, but does not allow neither short-period monitoring incloudy condition nor small-scale deforestation assessment from householdlogging and farming.  Recent earlywarning S1-based mode

Organic agriculture is widely accepted as a strategy to reduce the environmental impacts of food production and help achieve global climate and biodiversity targets. However, studies concluding that organic farming could satisfy global food demand have overlooked the key role that nitrogen plays in sustaining crop yields.

The total quantity of pesticides used in agriculture drops each year in Belgium, as new active-substances are efficient at lower doses. Yet, in terms of surface areas impacted, the use of pesticide shows a continuous increase.

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Séminaire expert : Gestion de l’eau urbaine à Bruxelles par  M. Antoine, Bruxelles Environnement   

We are very happy to announce that the next annual meeting of the “Molecular Bacteriology” F.R.S.-FNRS contact group will take place in Brussels on October 15, 2021 (Woluwé campus of UCLouvain). We will have two fantastic keynote speakers, Kristina Jonas (U.