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Valuing ecosystems - Marie Curie grant for Rosaleen March 18 June 2018
Ecologist Rosaleen March from the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) will carry on her research on functional biodiversity: a measure to assign...
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Sustainability in populist times 28 May 2018
Flying is cheaper than driving a car, but a disaster for the environment. Yet few politicians dare to levy excise duty on kerosene. This is only one e...
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Province, universities and businesses to collaborate on circular South Holland 05 April 2018
The province of South Holland is to collaborate with industry, the three LDE universities Leiden Delft and Erasmus, and the University of Wageningen i...
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The superpowers of new critical raw materials 29 March 2018
Cars, wind turbines, solar panels and smartphones. ‘Critical’ raw materials like platinum or cobalt are used in all the technologies that are essentia...
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Spin-off from astronomy: measuring water pollution with your mobile 26 March 2018
Leiden astronomers and ecologists are developing an instrument that lets people measure the quality of surface water with a smartphone.This internati...
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What we can learn from hi-tech nature 08 March 2018
Biodiversity in the Netherlands is having a tough time. Professor of Natural Capital Koos Biesmeijer combines research with practical advice: from th...
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Students wanted: Internalization and Effects of Nanomaterials in Freshwater Organisms 02 March 2018
Students searched for a student project about internalization and the effects of nanomaterials in freshwater organisms. Open to BSc and MSc students ...
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Students wanted for Msc topics at the Institute of Environmental Sciences 20 February 2018
Students searched for MSc Internships under the following topics: 1. Understanding temporal variability in functional biodiversity and 2. Characteriza...
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New lecture series on sustainability 14 February 2018
What are the implications for life on Earth of the declining numbers of insects? How does the ever increasing stream of of energy and material flowing...
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Stans Prize 2017 for Davide De Mauro 29 January 2018
The ‘Stans Prize 2017' (for the best thesis, report or article produced by a CML student) has been awarded to Davide De Mauro. Other CML prizes were ...
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Area studies of the Minor Sustainable Development in four countries 26 January 2018
Every January, students of the Minor Sustainable Development have the opportunity to put what they’ve learned over the last few months into practice i...
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Municipalities as testing grounds in sustainability 24 January 2018
Researching as a student how you can make your own student house free of natural gas. That is now possible because of a new collaboration between Leid...
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Good-natured twins on the secret jungles in the city 17 January 2018
In Dutch TV programme Early Birds, Marvin and Kevin Groen (26) showed viewers areas of nature in the city that often go unnoticed. These good-natured...
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Learn about the Circular Economy of Metals 03 January 2018
On 22 January 2018, the Massive Open Online Course ’A Circular Economy of Metals: Towards a Sustainable Societal Metabolism’ kicks off. This course is...
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How your diet can improve animal welfare 18 December 2017
A systematic approach to quantify impacts of food consumption on animal welfare has been developed by researchers of the Institute of Environmental Sc...