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Aerial view on Belgian offshore wind farm. (Image: RBINS)
20/07/2021

Offshore wind farms increase carbon storage in seabeds – useful knowledge for marine spatial planning and climate change models

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Kelle Moreau

Marine animals that grow on offshore wind turbines (such as mussels) affect the sea floor. We already knew that, but thanks to recent Belgian-Dutch research results, we now know exactly how important this effect is.  The results were presented in two recently published papers.

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Book 'Insectes du Monde'
16/07/2021

Taxonomists publish 'Insect Bible'

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Reinout Verbeke

Experts have assembled 1.848 pages of knowledge about all insect orders in a new two-volume book: Les Insectes du Monde (in French). The first part is a practical guide to determine the different insect groups, while the second volume features illustrations.

Bottlenose dolphin seeks the company of divers, 26 February 2021, Belgian part of the North Sea (© RBINS/A. Norro)
05/07/2021

Scientific divers are visited by two Bottlenose dolphins

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Kelle Moreau

On 26 February, two Bottlenose dolphins accompanied scientists during an entire dive near the Westhinder measuring platform in the south-western part of the Belgian North Sea.

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Scientific News
Impression of the exhibition Sea Force © Technopolis
01/07/2021

Dive into the future at brand-new exhibition Sea Force

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Kelle Moreau

As of this summer, Mechelen is the place to be for an extraordinary day out by the sea.

Toxicodryas vexator (photo: Konrad Mebert)
10/06/2021

Six New Snake Species Described

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Reinout Verbeke

Biologist Olivier Pauwels has described six new snake species. Two of them live in trees in Central Africa, three others on limestone hills in Thailand and another one near mountain rivers in the north of South-East Asia and the south of China.

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