News
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Water quality tool for improved risk assessments launched 20 December 2016
CML-Leiden University has developed a user-friendly tool that improves the risk assessment of heavy metals in surface waters. The tool was developed i...
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Faculty of Science reinforces collaboration in China 16 December 2016
The Faculty of Science has reinforced the collaboration in China during a group trip late November. Representatives from four institutes visited ten C...
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Damaged seaweed can recover 07 December 2016
Seaweed, which is vital for marine life, is disappearing throughout the world at an alarming rate. Different currents and wave patterns can bring abou...
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Interdisciplinary project group wins Bouw Recycling Award 29 November 2016
An Interdisciplinary project group of the Master Industrial Ecology was awarded a prize for its project “From waste to resource, One chain with shared...
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Delegation of Holland Rijnland visits the Institute of Biology 29 November 2016
On Thursday the 24th of November, Tseard Hoekstra and Jeroen Ververs (members of the delegation Holland Rijnland), Geert de Snoo (Dean Faculty of Scie...
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36 ditches as living lab for water quality 14 November 2016
On Monday 14 November, the first spadeful of earth was dug for the construction of the Living Lab, an experimental test site to study living organisms...
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Beestieboys visit Philippine crocodile project 07 November 2016
The VPRO children’s television show Beestieboys visited the Philippine crocodile project of the Mabuwaya Foundation. Presenters Tim and Nicolaas met C...
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Symposium Human - Wildlife conflicts in Africa 2016 01 November 2016
The symposium “Human-Wildlife conflicst in Africa” was held on the 27th October in the Academie gebouw of Leiden University in honor of the retirement...
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Royal decoration for Hans de Iongh 28 October 2016
Hans de Iongh, associate professor at the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), was named 'Officier in de Orde van Oranje Nassau' on Thursday 27 ...
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Nitrogen deposition elements through the food web – impacts on butterflies and moth species 18 October 2016
Nitrogen deposition does not only affect plant biodiversity, but also strongly affects the composition of the remainder of the food web, through the c...
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CML highly successful in the European Institute of Technology Raw Materials programme 27 September 2016
Last week, the results of the 2016 call for proposals of the European Institute of Technology Raw Materials (EIT RM) became available. Both Leiden Uni...
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Support the Living Lab for research on hazardous compounds in 36 ditches 19 September 2016
Researchers from the Institute of Environmental Sciences of Leiden University started crowdfunding to raise 15.000 euro to build a laboratory in natur...
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Europe is the only continent living at the expense of others 12 September 2016
Europe can only maintain its level of consumption by structurally relying on resources extracted abroad. This finding was published in the September i...
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Start Minor Sustainable Development 08 September 2016
Monday 5 September the eighth edition of the interdisciplinary Minor Sustainable Development started. With 65 students coming from more than 20 differ...
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CML researchers contribute to development of Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas 05 September 2016
CML researchers has contributed to development of the first-ever Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas , which has been published recently by the European Jo...