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PhD Researcher Anastasia Nikulina Wins Nick Ryan Bursary Award 2021 23 June 2021
To honour the work of its longstanding chair Nick Ryan, CAA International provides the annual Nick Ryan Bursary Award. The Nick Ryan Bursary Award win...
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Liveable Communities: project with a sustainable outlook 31 May 2021
With the Liveable Communities – Liveable Planet project, Marja Spierenburg, Professor of Anthropology of Sustainability and Livelihood, is showing tha...
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'Climate issues and sustainability should be part of every study programme' 20 May 2021
Having lectures on sustainability when you're a first-year student of Law, or a course on climate change when you're studying Public Administration ma...
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How nature boosts the health of city residents 10 May 2021
Your local city park may be improving your health, according to a new paper led by Leiden environmental scientist Roy Remme. In Proceedings of the Nat...
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An artistic view on the hidden fungi in the soil 03 May 2021
Music from a compostable cello, photographs and scents of fungi and a woven tapestry. With her upcoming multimedia project Super Organism, visual arti...
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A circular economy is about much more than just recycling 01 February 2021
It’s Circular Economy Week, from 1 to 6 February. But what is it that makes an economy circular? And just how circular is our university? René Kleijn,...
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Report: what does our urban mine have to offer? 21 January 2021
On 21 January, the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) has released two reports on circular economy and urban mining in the Netherlands. In them...
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Nutrient-rich water is heaven for disease-spreading mosquitoes 17 November 2020
When mosquito eggs hatch in nutrient-rich water, the mosquitoes are larger and they can also fly further. That is the first conclusion of a study from...
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Jan Willem Erisman reinforces Leiden’s environmental research as new professor of Environmental sustainability 13 August 2020
How can we best deal with the current problems caused by the human impact on the nitrogen cycle? How do we make the transition to a sustainable societ...
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GDP? Get rid of it! 10 December 2019
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the most powerful indicator in the world. And that while a large part of the scientific community sees it as an outdat...
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Dietary guidelines in these six countries are a win-win-win for nutrition, environment, and animals 22 November 2019
The national dietary guidelines in Australia, Brazil, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, and Slovenia benefit nutrition, environment and animal welfare, Leiden...
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How a global carbon price would weaken Eastern European and Asian economies 14 November 2019
Although seen as the fastest and cheapest way to global climate protection, a uniform global carbon price would have major consequences for the econom...
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Together, plants and fungi could slow down climate change 07 November 2019
A special relationship between plants and fungi, which plays an important role in carbon storage in soil, has the potential to slow down climate chang...
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Plastic nanoparticles make larval zebrafish hyperactive 24 October 2019
Nanoplastics influence the behaviour of larval zebrafish, says new research by the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) and the Institute of Environmenta...
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Chasing nanoplastics 17 October 2019
How dangerous are micro- and nanoplastics? Do they affect the environment? What harm can they do to our bodies? Questions that we can now finally answ...