Since 2016, a so-called 'sniffer' sensor has been used onboard the Belgian Coast Guard aircraft to check for environmental and nautical violations. This sensor allows the sulfur content in the fuel to be derived on the basis of measurements made in the emissions of ships above the sea.
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23/08/2018
Belgian Coast Guard Leading in the International Fight against Air Pollution above the Sea
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23/08/2018
Biodiversity for development, a way forward to the Sustainable Development Goals
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Kelle MoreauFive years of successful integration of biodiversity in the Belgian development cooperation forms the basis for further cooperation. In the week of 28 May to 1 June 2018, the involved Belgian and foreign partners gathered in Brussels.
18/07/2018
How to eat crab without hands?
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Charlotte DegueldreWhile opening and eating crabs represents a challenge for many people as they do not know how to rightly use the designated utensils, some animals manage to do it without tools and even without hands!
25/06/2018
Belgium's Largest Collection of Human Remains Reveals Its Secrets
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Reinout VerbekeAn anthropologist from our Institute has analyzed 350 human skeletons from a cemetery in Malines, Belgium. The human remains date from the 10th until the 18th century, and are part of the largest skeletal assemblage ever found in Belgium.
08/06/2018
Aerial Surveys over the North Sea in 2017
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Kelle MoreauA total of 222 flight hours has been performed at sea in the framework of the Belgian North Sea aerial survey programme in 2017. In and nearby the Belgian marine areas 11 spillages were observed, of which 10 operational slicks and 1 accidental spill.
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