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Leiden biologists find nanoplastics in developing heart 28 May 2024
Nanoplastics can accumulate in developing hearts, according to a study by biologist Meiru Wang from Leiden University. Her research on chicken embryos...
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Ecology PhD student wins Dutch award for investigative journalism 24 May 2024
PhD student and research journalist Sebastiaan Grosscurt won a Tegel in May. In the data category, Grosscurt and his colleagues won the prestigious Du...
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Buzzing decline: Dutch landscape is losing insect-pollinated plants 22 April 2024
The Netherlands is losing plant species that rely on pollination by insects. Leiden environmental scientist Kaixuan Pan demonstrates this after analys...
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The Netherlands and China work together to improve their wastewater management 17 April 2024
Netherlands and China can learn from each other to handle household and livestock wastewater more sensibly. In the FOREWARD project, scientists from L...
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Academics requesting retraction of FAO report that misrepresents their research 09 April 2024
Paul Behrens (Leiden University) and Matthew Hayek (New York University) have responded to an FAO report on livestock pathways which misrepresented th...
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How EU farm subsidies favour high-emission animal products 04 April 2024
More than 80 percent of the EU’s agricultural subsidies go to the production of animals or animal feed. These products are responsible for 84 percent ...
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The whole world knows the way to the Leiden institute in Morocco 05 March 2024
A delegation from Leiden University visited the Netherlands Institute Morocco (Nimar) in Rabat at the end of February. For a whole host of disciplines...
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How the world can achieve climate goals with clean hydrogen production 22 February 2024
Hydrogen can help to solve the climate problem. At least, if we start producing it in the right, clean way. Leiden researchers mapped out the global e...
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Together towards a Circular System: Leiden contributes to Growing with Green Steel 19 February 2024
A complete transformation of the steel cycle in the Netherlands with the ultimate goal of a CO2 neutral steel sector by 2050. For this purpose, the Gr...
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Plant-based diet can help unlock technology to harness huge CO2 removal 07 February 2024
Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is a promising method for removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and simultaneously gener...
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Your old smartphone is indispensable for the energy transition 06 February 2024
By 2050, we can obtain 40 per cent of our demand for scarce earth metals from old smartphones, batteries, and wind turbines. This is crucial because o...
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Four Leiden Scientists: 'Environmental risks of new pesticides with nanoparticles insufficiently examined' 25 January 2024
The environmental risks of new pesticides containing nanoparticles are inadequately researched, according to four Leiden scientists in the scientific ...
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Mismatched timing: how climate change challenges bird migration 25 January 2024
How does climate change affect the migration routes of birds? Mainly negatively, according to a new study from Yali Si from the CML. ‘It changes the t...
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Koos Biesmeijer and Claire van Megen nominated for Person of the Year 09 January 2024
Koos Biesmeijer, Professor of Natural Capital, and Claire van Megen, an Educational and Child Studies student, are in with a chance of winning Leiden’...
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Research projects launched into biodiversity in food and horticulture production 19 December 2023
Two Leiden research projects that focus on increasing the biodiversity of Dutch production systems for food and ornamental horticulture have started t...