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The evacuation of a cinema, shopping arcade and several homes in Brussels, after people complained of eye irritation, breathing difficulties and an unbearable smell, was likely to have been caused by the many nail salons in the vicinity.
In an effort to tackle the issue of traffic-related noise pollution, the Brussels region has launched a pilot project to measure noise levels throughout the city.
Due to a rise in the number of cases of bird flu, Belgium’s Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC) is reminding people to avoid contact with dead animals.
The Belgian capital’s parks saw a busy 2022, with a total of 673 official events hosted in parks managed by Brussels Environment, compared to 1,166 in 2019 and 784 in 2021. There were more than 1,078 applications for such events submitted, Bruzz reports.
At the beginning of December, a Woluwe Saint-Pierre resident discovered that her bird feeder had been broken into and emptied. Wondering who could be responsible for such an act, she set up a camera. It turned out that the perpetrator was none other than a raccoon, reports RTBF.