In the media
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Urban green infrastructure: making future cities more sustainable 07 August 2023Urban green infrastructure has the ability to make make cities more sustainable. However, the exact implementation of green infrastructure and the cho...
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The urban mine is full of resources, but a circular economy is still too ambitious 31 January 2023Reuse everything and stop producing waste. By 2050, the Netherlands should have a circular economy. However, the new Integral Circular Economy Report ...
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The effect of nanoparticles on our planet 17 November 2022‘Solar panels, toothpaste and sport socks. What do these things have in common?’ Martina Vijver, professor of ecotoxicology begins her TEDx-talk. Watc...
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‘Food is the elephant in the room for human water use’ 11 May 2021From treatment plants to hot showers, emissions from water use in the U.S. are equal to 50 million cars driving around for a year. In The Washington P...
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How to set ambitious goals for sustainable agriculture 25 January 2021Food production in the Netherlands is an economic success but has led to many environmental issues, including nitrogen pollution. Recently, the policy...
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A compound that gives life as easily as it takes: Jan Willem Erisman on BBC about ammonium nitrate 11 September 2020Following the Beirut explosion, BBC's podcast series The Foodchain explores the chemical that caused the blast: ammonium nitrate. A compound that is w...
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Importing goods from sustainable countries could lower EU’s environmental footprint 28 November 2019A recent study in Ecological Economics, led by Leiden environmental scientist Bertram de Boer, states that the European Union could lower its environm...
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Rene Kleijn on BNR radio about critical materials 21 June 2019The recent trade dispute between the U.S. and China has renewed the attention for the dependency of the U.S. and many other developed countries on the...
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Martina Vijver on nanoparticles at Paradiso's Science & Cocktails 04 April 2019Professor of Ecotoxicology Martina Vijver of the Institute of Environmental Sciences has given a public talk at Paradiso Amsterdam for Science & Cockt...
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UN calls for urgent rethink as resource use skyrockets 21 March 2019The International Resource Panel of the United Nations Environment Programme, with CML researcher Ester van der Voet as member, has prepared a report ...
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Vijver en Barmentlo in radio show Vroege Vogels about Living Lab results 05 March 2019Water fleas and damselflies are much more sensitive to crop protection products in nature than in the lab. These test results from the Living Lab were...
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Was the EU’s ban on electric fishing the right decision? 18 February 2019Last week, on 13 February 2019, the EU approved the ban on pulse trawling. This followed the vote for a ban by the European Parliament on 16 January 2...
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Hans de Iongh at National Geographic for Big Cat Month 29 January 2019In the theme of Big Cat Month, National Geographic interviewed Professor Hans de Iongh, guest researcher of the Institute of Environmental Sciences (C...
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Media attention inaugural lecture ecotoxicologist Martina Vijver 19 November 2018Time and again synthesised substances have been shown to pollute the environment more than lab tests predicted. In her inaugural lecture on 16 Novembe...
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Media on sustainable energy space uptake 31 August 2018The production of sustainable energy can take up to 1000 times more space than fossil fuels, environmental researcher Paul Behrens concludes in a publ...