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05/12/2025

🌲 Climate change is transforming our forests — but how exactly?
And how can science help us understand what’s happening?

In this video, Richard Keim explains why long-term forest monitoring is becoming just as essential as the decades of water monitoring we’ve already built. As our climate changes, some tree species will cope… others won’t. To prepare, we need solid data, smart models, and eyes on the ground.

This work is part of FORLUX, a national project where our teams are:
🌲 building a forest health monitoring system for Luxembourg
💧 studying how trees use water
🌍 analysing forest carbon storage
💨 improving our understanding of air quality

All of this will help forest and water managers make better decisions for the future.
👉 https://www.list.lu/en/environment/project/forlux/

But science isn’t the only way to tell this story.
We’ve also teamed up with artist Ben Carter, whose beautiful cardboard landscapes reveal the hidden systems that keep forests alive. His work echoes the challenges we’re seeing in our research 👉 https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1358216756316934&set=pb.100063858661498.-2207520000

🌱 Forests are living systems — and their decline is happening fast. Luxembourg artist Ben Carter explores this question ...
04/12/2025

🌱 Forests are living systems — and their decline is happening fast.

Luxembourg artist Ben Carter explores this question in a striking series of four connected cardboard landscapes. Each 15 cm square box represents a stage of environmental decline: a thriving woodland gradually giving way to fire, infestation, extreme weather and drought.

Beneath each miniature scene, painted layers trace the continuous flow of groundwater — slowly drying as the damage above intensifies. The work also reflects a loss of natural balance: without predators, growing deer populations overgraze young shoots, preventing regeneration. In the “infestation” box, fallen trees hint at the increasing power of climate-driven storms.

Together, the four boxes form a single terrain where water flows from the hills toward sea level, reminding us that every disruption — roots, soil, canopy or climate — echoes through the entire ecosystem.

These artistic insights mirror the findings of our researchers. Forest health in Luxembourg has declined sharply in the last two decades due to droughts, pests, extreme weather and environmental pressures.

Through some of our projects, we are working with Ville de Luxembourg to better understand these changes and protect the vital services forests provide — from clean air and water to biodiversity and carbon storage.

By combining scientific evidence with artistic expression, we aim to strengthen awareness of how deeply interconnected our forests are — and why protecting them matters now more than ever.

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