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Together, plants and fungi could slow down climate change 07 November 2019A 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 2019Nanoplastics 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 2019How 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...
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These animal species are dear to us, but can we protect them? 11 October 2019Animal species that are dear to us in the Netherlands often spend a large part or all of their lifecycle in other parts of the world. But their habita...
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Counting plants and small freshwater creatures for citizen science 17 June 2019Local residents, scientists and students are investigating riverbanks in Leiden for the 'Bank Plants' citizen science project. Which plant species are...
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Experts provide three necessary solutions to the biodiversity crisis 20 May 2019It came as a shock to many people: one million plant and animal species are threatened to become extinct. But this number isn’t the most relevant aspe...
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New dimension to coral research 10 April 2019For the first time, international researchers have mapped the network of bacteria on coral reefs. They write about it in Nature Communications (9 Apri...
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‘We have world-class expertise on the circular economy’ 01 April 2019The province of Zuid-Holland faces a wide range of global sustainability issues caused by urbanisation, intensive horticulture and industry. The unive...
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Saving threatened orang-utans with climate change-resilient trees 26 February 2019A study of the International Union for Conservation of Nature has identified tree species native to Indonesia’s Kutai National Park that are resilient...
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SUNRISE: from sunlight to smart city 01 February 2019The European Project SUNRISE, ‘Solar energy for a circular economy’, has been selected as one of the six Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) within...
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An evening of exchanging dilemmas surrounding sustainability 27 November 2018Why does it turn out to be so complicated to solve sustainability issues if everyone ‘knows’ about these problems? This was the central question in a ...
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On safari in the Bio Science Park 06 August 2018It is a warm day. The sun is shining brightly while biologist Marco Roos makes his way through the bushes towards a peculiar little plant. Insects buz...
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Symposium 40 years CML: Scientists should speak up 09 July 2018In 2018, the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), born out of activism, exists for forty years. The institute celebrated this on 28 June in the ...
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Gorlaeus lecture halls: biggest solar panel roof in Leiden 04 July 2018The roof of the lecture halls at the Faculty of Science was fitted with solar panels in June, making it the biggest solar-panel-covered roof in Leiden.
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Valuing ecosystems - Marie Curie grant for Rosaleen March 18 June 2018Ecologist Rosaleen March from the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) will carry on her research on functional biodiversity: a measure to assign...