California's miserable snow season, and the rapid decline (black line) in snow water equivalent from the recent unprecedented heat wave in the west. This is #climatechange and the long predicted impacts of rising temperatures.

A new study suggests that droughts in global key breadbasket regions, precipitation extremes over highly populated areas, and fire weather extremes across forests at 2 °C of global warming may turn out to be much more extreme than previously assumed. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Take your time to read the full story about Résidence Palace, as one of #Brussels' most iconic apartment complexes turns 100 - h/t @goodclimate.bsky.social www.brusselstimes.com/magazine/202...

Gabriel has stopped in street to chat with local saint, but Mary is nevertheless receiving the Holy Spirit in a marvelous Annunciation by Carlo Crivelli, 1486. For the feast of the Annunciation, which is today.

"The sculptural drama of Polak’s opposing facades still make Résidence Palace a first-rate example of Brussels interwar architecture but the very carefully composed approach from Rue de la loi has been damaged leaving this set-piece swimming in a sea of asphalt."

🏆 2026 marque notre bicentenaire et nous sommes ravis de vous annoncer que le site web dédié à nos 200 ans est en ligne ! 😍 📅 Vous y trouverez le calendrier de nos activités. Il sera mis à jour tout au long de l'année, donc n'hésitez pas à le consulter régulièrement. 🔗 200ans.observatoire.be

🌍 Call for Applications: VASAB Young Planners’ Summer School 2026. Young professionals & students from the Baltic Sea Region, Norway & Ukraine are invited to apply! 📍 Gdańsk, Poland 📅 23–29 Aug 2026 🗓 Apply by 7 April 2026 More information 👉 vasab.org/support-for-... #SummerSchool #VASAB

the guardian is going through its belgian phase these days 😘

You know that template a few days ago about who looked great in a hat? We have a winner.

🔴 The historic city center of Lviv, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is under attack by russian drones. Mayor Andryi Sadovy shared this picture, other channels show several fires across the city. In daytime, Russia unleashed dozens of drones over Ukraine.

The article writes "Maybe it’s time for a citizen campaign" to fight the problem of trash in BXL. Just to let you know, we are already doing that! Lots of activity - local projects, meetings with politicians across the region, even a meeting with the King. Lots going on if you want to learn more!

Money talks, but in climate #transparency speaks louder. With private and public funds being pumped into carbon removal, our report on Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (#MRV) is a must-read for funders where we present 7 recommendations on funding needs. More: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

23/03/26 Logbook – Meeting on National Actions (T2.2) Partners, convened online to exchange on the national actions developed to strengthen the integration of EGD components into MSP across selected countries. Recommendations will be compiled in the coming months and shared on our website!

Dune by the Sea - 1930 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104353

US offshore wind project killed: The United States and French ‌energy major TotalEnergies said on Monday they would redirect nearly $1 billion from offshore wind leases to U.S. oil and natural gas production. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

#seaweedemoji #haiku

#Seaweed solutions! SymbioTex is using seaweed to create a “sustainable and truly home compostable material that can be used to revolutionise the production of packaging and medical devices currently made from single-use plastic.” 🦑🌊 www.symbio-tex.com

🌊 We were honoured to join the panel discussion on the forthcoming EU Strategy for Coastal Communities at #EUOceanDays 2026. VASAB highlighted the role of macro-regional cooperation and #SpatialPlanning in building resilient #CoastalCommunities. 🔗Read more & watch the discussion tinyurl.com/mr3kfsh9

🐠 Exciting opportunity! 🌊We’re on the lookout for an #MSPglobal Expert on Aquaculture! 🗓️ Apply by 3 April 2026, 17:00 CEST ➡️ tinyurl.com/mu9n6w5d

We desparately need to talk about this. To me, as a legal anthropologist and as someone who studied international law, this is one of the most dangerous forms of sanctioning and intimidation: The sanctioning of judges, esp. of the #ICJ and #ICC! #internationallaw www.justiceinfo.net/en/156847-li...

For the past 30 years, Marie Skłodowska-Curie’s legacy has become a promise: empower researchers to explore, experiment & achieve breakthroughs. The EU-funded programme for doctoral education & postdoctoral training honouring her name supports curiosity that changes the world 🧪 @ec.europa.eu

Brussels 100 years ago, a revolutionary 5-minute city-within-the city emerged on a seemingly-worthless site. Huge luxury apartments above a private high street with shops, restaurants, hairdressers, carsharing, a bank. The story of Résidence Palace. www.brusselstimes.com/2021048/a-ci...

Picard management tip: Create an atmosphere of trust, not fear.

Night at Gurzof. 1891 by 🧑‍🎨 Ivan Aivazovsky #muSEAum

🌊 The common seaweeds of the British coast and Channel Islands London: F. Warne ;[1865?] [Source]

The iconic Résidence Palace marks its centenary this year – a Jazz Age experiment in luxury living that helped reshape Brussels long before the EU arrived.

BREAKING: The blackout in Spain and Portugal in April 2025 did NOT happen because of renewables. The final ENTSO-E report on last year's Iberian blackout is out — and it's essential reading for anyone working on the energy transition. www.entsoe.eu/news/2026/03...

Omuran-chan, a lively cherry blossom spirit, is the mascot of Omura City, Nagasaki.

The Powered by People exhibition will be on display for just a few more weeks. Come along to Stromness Museum to explore, reflect, and be inspired by Orkney’s renewable energy journey before our exhibition changeover in mid-April. 🌈 🔗 shorturl.at/tISWc

Amazing what the Recovery and Resilience Fund can achieve #EURecover @ec.europa.eu

Some much-needed vitamin sea

North Sea Friday Folk #6 — lives shaped by the shallow sea on our doorstep Today's the turn of Belgian artist & Ostend son James Ensor (1860-1949) Known for images of grotesque fantasy, inspired by childhood memories of his family’s seaside souvenir & curiosity shop 🖼️ The Call of the Siren, 1893

🌊 Journalists from coastal countries: apply for new fellowship to attend and report from the #OurOceanConference in Mombasa, Kenya this June—helping ensure decisions from this global event reach the communities most affected. Learn more and apply by April 7: https://loom.ly/vvLnbSM

Are you leaving on holidays this Easter? Why not participating in #GES4SEAS #MarinArt challenge? Take a photo from an street-art mural, with marine motifs and upload it here ⬇️ You can help us and win some interesting prizes! #OceanLiteracy #MarineEcology #Research www.ges4seas.eu/marinart-cha...

Some more octopus sketching for a current commission. It's so fun drawing octopus! I love their movement and their lose shapes #sciart #invertebrates #art

If a bookkeeper keeps the books, what does a fishmonger do

#EastCoastKin #ArtChallenge #ClassicMono

Next to place Fontainas in Brussels, this circular car park is in an 1880 building designed to display vast panorama paintings. Season 1 featured the Battle of Waterloo, next up was the British army vs the Zulus, then the Last Days of Pompeii. It survived into the 1920s with the Battle of the User.

#Brussels has reached the spring equinox today! From tomorrow onwards, our days 🌞 will be longer than our nights 🌃 👇

A rare beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) has been spotted off the Belgian coast. It was seen today at 4pm near the Strekdam in Ostend. Belugas are normally found in Arctic and sub-Arctic waters. This one appears to have strayed off. www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=... @marinespecies.bsky.social

#Amrum directed by Fatih Akin, is a coming-of-age story set against the final days of World War II. The film, also starring Diane Kruger, follows a 12-year-old boy as he navigates life on a remote North Sea island shaped by war. Opens in theaters on April 17 Amrum trailer + story vimooz.me/pcfgc4

So cool: there’s a former open air waterworks laboratory in a forest on one of the Dutch polders. Now a natural monument, free to visit!

Did you know that before we had computer model simulations, the effect of water and waves on coastlines and harbours were studied with scaled models? But because you can’t downscale the properties of water, bigger scale models are better. www.natuurmonumenten.nl/natuurgebied...

Jesus. Paying a French company a billion dollars *not* to build a wind farm.

I anticipated that the energy transition would not go smoothly but I seriously underestimated just how stupid it would be

EU water legislation must work effectively 💧🔎 Today, we launched a call for evidence to support a targeted revision of the EU Water Framework Directive We call stakeholders & businesses to participate, particularly those affecting EU water bodies >>> link.europa.eu/BdD3RM

Portland pothole artists are seriously my favorite people. If you know one or are one and would be willing to talk about your craft, please DM

That's how I want to leave this earth 😅 #BikeBrussels

Sean Penn won an Oscar, but instead of accepting his well-deserved award at last Sunday’s ceremony, he went to Ukraine🇺🇦 Thank you for standing with Ukraine — one battle after another💙💛