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Habitats of freshwater fish species are threatened by global warming 15 March 2021
The habitats of freshwater fish species are threatened by global warming, mainly due to rising water temperatures. This is the conclusion of a study l...
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Leiden students offer ideas on restoring an antique ship 08 March 2021
How do you go about the sustainable restoration of a nineteenth-century ship without affecting its historical worth? Leiden University students from t...
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Ecologist Michiel Veldhuis is the Discoverer of the Year 2020 25 February 2021
Michiel Veldhuis received the most public votes for the C.J. Kok Public Award and may therefore call himself Discoverer of the Year. Veldhuis research...
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New study helps policymakers combat global warming with negative-emissions technology 18 February 2021
Cutting down global emissions of greenhouse gases to combat global warming won’t do the trick alone: we also need negative-emissions technology that c...
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Frederic Lens: building bridges in biodiversity research 18 February 2021
Four green research institutes in Leiden are joining forces to integrate evolution and biodiversity research, at local and at the national level. Pivo...
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Nanoparticles: shapeshifters that pass along the food chain and end up in the brain 09 February 2021
Nanomaterials can pass much further along the food chain than was previously thought. The particles can change shape and size in each organism, enabli...
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New map of the Netherlands shows where nitrogen reduction will be most effective 05 February 2021
By reforming agriculture in targeted areas, we can protect the Natura 2000 areas much more effectively. This is what Jan Willem Erisman of Leiden Univ...
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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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CML's Stans Award 2021 29 January 2021
CML grants three Stans Awards each year, known as the best PhD paper, best student thesis and best outreach from the past year. The CML staff nominate...
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Major European research into microplastics in agricultural soils: grant for Thijs Bosker 27 January 2021
Thijs Bosker, Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences at Leiden University College (LUC) and the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), has...
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Making a technology sustainable that doesn’t even exist yet 26 January 2021
Industrial ecologists Stefano Cucurachi and Flora Siebler are part of the new consortium PROGENY, which received 3.6 million euros from the European C...
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How to set ambitious goals for sustainable agriculture 25 January 2021
Food 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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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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How to share responsibility for polluting the atmosphere? 04 January 2021
In our globalised economy, goods and services are frequently produced abroad. Is it the producer or the consumer that should be held responsible for g...
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Promising test in Peru: tackling climate change whilst reducing poverty 17 December 2020
What if we start taxing carbon-intensive products such as electricity and gasoline, and at the same time compensate low-income households? Hauke Ward ...