BELGIUM-SCIENCE-CLIMATE

Belgian scientists backlight with a mobile phone a blue ice sample in a laboratory in Brussels on July 15, 2025. Scientists from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) brought back from an expedition to Antarctica near the Princess Elisabeth Station,
some 1.2-million-year-old samples with a total price tag of around 11 million euros, providing valuable information on the evolution of Earth’s climate in the past. (Photo by Nicolas TUCAT / AFP) (Photo by NICOLAS TUCAT/AFP via Getty Images)