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What DNA in droppings can reveal about an animal’s diet 24 October 2024Imagine scanning lion dung or a mouse dropping and instantly knowing exactly what and how much the animal has eaten. Thanks to new DNA techniques, thi...
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Historical research helps biodiversity in Leiden city centre 22 July 2024The Leiden municipality wants to make the city centre climate-proof and combat heat stress by greening it. But they want to do this in a way that does...
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Pavement gardens are crucial to urban biodiversity 15 July 2024They are often little more than a square metre of plants, yet pavement gardens are a source of life. PhD candidate Joeri Morpurgo conducted research i...
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'Society would flourish with new farming styles’ 12 June 2024‘The climate crisis is the greatest threat we face,’ says Leiden University environmental scientist Paul Behrens. ‘And yet, there is hope. In the near...
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Hopeful insights on climate and biodiversity in LDE white paper 21 May 2024A banker who puts making money second and makes a profit nonetheless. A farmer who stops ploughing and using insecticides but still has a good harvest...
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Four Leiden Scientists: 'Environmental risks of new pesticides with nanoparticles insufficiently examined' 25 January 2024The environmental risks of new pesticides containing nanoparticles are inadequately researched, according to four Leiden scientists in the scientific ...
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Research projects launched into biodiversity in food and horticulture production 19 December 2023Two Leiden research projects that focus on increasing the biodiversity of Dutch production systems for food and ornamental horticulture have started t...
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Green roofs and tile flipping: research in The Hague on the best approach to climate and species diversity 05 December 2023Does a communal garden provide cool air and warm neighbourly relations? Does an additional row of trees increase biodiversity? These kinds of question...
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‘An internship can be very enlightening in helping you figure out where your interests lie’ 28 September 2023Niels Broekman did an internship at the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, where he worked on, among other things, biodiversity advocac...
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Start pilot cultivating rice on peatland 23 May 2023Is polder rice a feasible circular alternative for cows on peatland? A pilot experiment started this week. On May 22nd, researchers from Leiden Univer...
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If we do nothing, more plants will go extinct 15 May 2023A wide range of plant species is essential to our earth because of the different materials and foods these plants provide. But plant diversity has dec...
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What do we define as urban green space? 17 March 2023When do we define a piece of nature in the city as a park? And when is something a tree or shrub? It may seem obvious, but in scientific literature th...
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Jos Raaijmakers nominated for Huibregtsenprijs 2022 19 July 2022The research project of Jos Raaijmakers is nominated for the Huibregtsenprijs 2022. The researcher of NIOO, with a guest appointment at the Institute ...
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'I have always worked for a better world. Here at Biology we do the same' 06 July 2022The new institute manager of the IBL studied biology for six months, but went in a completely different direction: development cooperation and the fin...
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Supergenes make bizarre traits possible 13 June 2022Within the same species of butterfly many different wing patterns can occur. How is this possible? According to researchers Ben Wielstra and Emma Berd...