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The fishermen and women's proximity to the coastal waters has made them front-line witnesses of how climate change is altering the ecosystem of the North Sea. Oceans have absorbed 90% of the global warming that humans have caused in the last few decades, according to NASA. In the North Sea, surface temperatures have increased by around 0.3 degrees Celsius per decade since 1991. While shrimp populations fluctuate during short-term changes like heatwaves, fishermen and scientists report increases in lesser weever fish and squid, traditionally found further south but which have moved north into Belgium's warming waters. North Sea cod populations have plummeted since the 1980s, which scientists attribute to rising sea temperatures and overfishing.

Persons: Gunther Vanbleu, Martha, anorak, Vanbleu, Eddy D'Hulster, Ilias Semmouri, Hans Polet, ILVO, Polet, I'm, Kate Abnett, Bart Biesemans, Bernadette Baum Organizations: UNESCO, Reuters, NASA, Ghent University, Thomson Locations: Belgian, Oostduinkerke, BRUSSELS, Flanders

☆ Tour de France champion Vingegaard named 2023 Velo d'Or, skips ceremony
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 21 - Saint-Quentin-En-Yvelines to Paris Champs-Elysees - France - July 23, 2023 Team Jumbo–Visma's Jonas Vingegaard wearing the yellow jersey in action during stage 21 Pool via REUTERS/Daniel Cole/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsPARIS, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard was awarded the Velo d'Or trophy for the season's best cyclist, but the Danish rider skipped the ceremony in Paris on Tuesday. Vingegaard, who won his second Tour in a row last July, is expected to be in the French capital on Wednesday when organisers reveal the route for the 2024 Tour. It was the first time on Tuesday that the Velo d'Or, an award first attributed in 1992, was being handed at a formal ceremony. Dutch Demi Vollering, who won the Tour de France Femmes, won the women's Velo d'Or. Belgian Lotte Kopecky received the women's Eddy Merckx award after notably winning the Tour of Flanders and the world champion titles.

Persons: Jumbo – Visma's Jonas Vingegaard, Daniel Cole, Jonas Vingegaard, Vingegaard, Demi Vollering, Vingegaard's, Christophe Laporte, Bernard Hinault, Dutch Mathieu van der, Eddy Merckx, Lotte Kopecky, Julien Pretot, Christian Radnedge Organizations: de, REUTERS, Rights, de France, Velo, Femmes, Paris, of Flanders, Thomson Locations: Quentin, Yvelines, Paris, France, Danish, Dutch, Roubaix

☆ 'I cracked myself': Pogacar pays price for disrupted Tour preparation
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Julien Pretot | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Vingegaard said his Jumbo-Visma team had a plan to make Pogacar crack, but the 2020 and 2021 champion saw it differently. "I didn't notice, I was going day by day and I didn't see that I was feeling worse and worse. Vingegaard's season is solely focused on the Tour while this year Pogacar sought victories in Milan-Sanremo (4th), the Tour of Flanders (1st) and Paris-Nice (1st). He won the Fleche Wallonne but a crash on the Liege-Bastogne-Liege meant he could not prepare correctly for the Tour. Pogacar also wants to beat Vingegaard on the Tour before possibly moving on to "new challenges".

Persons: Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard, de la, Vingegaard, Marie Blanque, la, Eddy Merckx, Mauro Gianetti, Gianetti, Julien Pretot, Toby Davis Organizations: Tour de, Paris, of, Sanremo, of Flanders, Reuters, Giro, Thomson Locations: Slovenian, Pyrenees, Cauterets Cambasque, Milan, Paris, Liege, Bastogne

☆ Evenepoel wins Liege-Bastogne-Liege again while Pogacar crashes out
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

April 23 (Reuters) - Belgian Remco Evenepoel claimed back-to-back wins in the Liege-Bastogne-Liege one-day race on Sunday with a stunning solo ride to victory while Slovenia's pre-race favourite Tadej Pogacar had to abandon the race after fracturing his wrist in a crash. Soudal Quick-Step's Evenepoel first attacked with about 34 km left with Ineos Grenadiers' Tom Pidcock joining him at the front. But Evenepoel attacked again on the next climb to leave the Briton behind with 30 km to go. My back wheel went a bit like it did last year (on a turn)," Evenepoel said. I said I wanted the picture with the jersey to put in my bedroom," Evenepoel added.

☆ Van der Poel solos to emotional Milan-Sanremo victory
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

March 18 (Reuters) - Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel won the Milan-Sanremo on Saturday to claim the first Monument of the season, 62 years after his grandfather won the race. However, Van der Poel launched his attack on the summit of the Poggio with 5.5km to go and stormed into the lead, extending it as they entered the city with the other three riders fighting it out for second place. The victory was Van der Poel's third after winning the Tour of Flanders in 2020 and 2022, following in the footsteps of his French grandfather Raymond Poulidor who won the race in 1961. It's one Monument every rider wants to win one day," Van der Poel said with a smile. Milan-Sanremo is the longest Monument race at 294 kilometres this year.

☆ Tim Berners-Lee wants us to reclaim the internet from tech giants
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Daniel Renjifo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

London CNN —The internet has come a long way since Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in 1989. Now, in an era of growing concern over privacy, he believes it’s time for us to reclaim our personal data. Through their startup Inrupt, Berners-Lee and CEO John Bruce have created the “Solid Pod” — or Personal Online Data Store. The latter plans to use Pods to let its citizens choose how to share their personal data. A former physicist, Tim Berners-Lee, pictured in 1994, invented the world wide web at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN.

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