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2026-01-22

78% of Walloon agricultural land contaminated with insecticides

Scientists* from the Earth and Life Institute (UCLouvain) have shown that 78% of agricultural soil in Wallonia is contaminated with neonicotinoids, insecticides that are particularly harmful to pollin

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2026-01-05

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi set to revolutionize agriculture

Imagine a project that could transform agriculture by making plants more resistant and healthier. That is the ambition of AMFACTORY, an ambitious European program led by Professor Stéphane Declerck.

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2025-11-28

Transition Week: walking, planting, and sharing ideas to create the world of tomorrow

From November 17 to 21, UCLouvain celebrated the Transition Week.

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2025-11-25

Making agricultural systems more sustainable through human and economic perspectives

The ecological transition is probably the most important challenge humanity will face this century.  To make this transition a success, all disciplines need to be involved.

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2025-10-22

Science on the field: collecting data in extreme environments

On October 7, several members of the Earth and Life Institute attended the premiere of IMAQA's documentary “Something in the Water”, a story of scientific data collection in a particularly hostile env

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2025-10-06

The ArcticWATCH project: rapid sea ice loss as an indicator of global warming

Researchers from the ArcticWATCH project study and model sea ice, an important indicator of global warming.

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2025-09-23

ELI celebrates 600 years of research with the Happy U exhibition

 The Earth and Life Institute is part of the "𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐔" 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 to celebrate 600 years of research at UCLouvain.   Have you already visited the "Happy U" exhibition a

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2025-09-15

Mobility in transition: ideas in motion

What if tomorrow's mobility were being built today at UCLouvain?

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2025-08-29

Urban gullies that put millions of Congolese at risk quantified and mapped

New research involving ELI researchers has just been published in the prestigious journal Nature. It quantifies the underestimated phenomenon of urban gullies in DR Congo.

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2025-08-27

Intensive and successful sampling campaigns for the DeepHorizon project

 The DeepHorizon project focuses on reshaping our approach to subsoil ecosystems in Europe and beyond.

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