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The state of alert in the nature and heathland areas of Antwerp and Limburg provinces was raised to orange at the weekend because of the increased risk of fire due to the continued dry weather.
Joke Schauvliege, Flanders’ environment minister, has agreed to a subsidy programme for sewage projects, increasing the designated budget by one-quarter to €138 million.
More than 2,000 megawatts of solar power was produced yesterday around noon in Belgium, a new peak in the country’s solar energy output.
By the year 2100 Belgium will face severe flooding, skyrocketing costs due to the rising sea level and serious loss of groundwater resources.
The mild winter has had a positive side-effect for nature: with only one day where the temperatures dropped below zero, the roads and traffic agency AWV did not need to salt the roads.
The European Commission is concerned that Belgium is not properly limiting its citizens’ exposure to the particle matter known as PM10.
The Flemish Environment Agency has just completed one of the biggest floodwater holding basins to be constructed over the past decade.
The president of the Flemish Groen party, Wouter Van Besien, has criticised Antwerp’s controversial Oosterweel Link plan because it solves the city’s traffic congestion at the cost of public healt
