Although the Belgian part of the North Sea only represents 0.5 % of the North Sea surface, it is situated in one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world and combines a large number of human activities on a limited space.
Although the Belgian part of the North Sea only represents 0.5 % of the North Sea surface, it is situated in one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world and combines a large number of human activities on a limited space.
The Museum gets into summer mode this June: beautiful lighting, guaranteed quiet and lots of new exhibits for the season...
In its new report 'Marine mammals in Belgium in 2022' (available in Dutch and
In 2021, an article in Nature made world headlines because it equated the carbon released from seabed disturbance due to bottom trawling to the amount of CO2 generated by the global aviation industry.
In this travelling installation, South African artist Fritha Langerman, from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, draws attention to the crisis of extinction of animal species, particularly the rhinoceros.
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