As part of my thesis, I study the impacts of global warming on a tropical butterfly species. The effects of this warming could potentially lead to the extinction of this species (...)
Testimonies
Isa Schön / Senior researcher and guest professor
It takes millions of years for new species to evolve; fast extinction due to global warm will give animals and plants no time to adapt. We need to act now!
Niels Souverijns / PhD student
As a climate scientist working on Antarctica, I have been following the evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and its contribution to sea level rise. Research showed exponential (...)
Michel Crucifix / Professor and Research Scientist
My main concern is with my area of expertise. Climate change is a concern, not so much because it will be warmer in Belgium, but because it will be an additional destabilizing (...)
David Lombard / PhD student-researcher
Although the Anthropocene and climate change are widely known as scientific issues, they are also significant cultural problems. In literary criticism and ecocriticism, the main (...)
Myriam Dumortier / Policy Officer, Guest Professor
Expert in biodiversity, changing towards a sustainable way of life since 30 years, convinced that sustainable living brings happiness and happy to share experiences.
Dries Van den Eynde / Researcher
I am researcher working of physical impacts of climate change, sea level rise, change of storminess, effects of sea level rise on waves. I am also involded in environmental impact (...)
Nicolas Schtickzelle / FNRS Senior Researcher and Professor
Humanity is destroying biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. Moving the human race to another planet is still science-fiction. To save ourselves, we need to save our planet first.