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How can we reuse the burnt cars from the Fremantle Highway? 16 August 2023
Over 2,700 cars on the cargo vessel Fremantle Highway that caught fire on 26 July have been so badly damaged that they cannot be sold. Can we recycle ...
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Research: Points system makes neighbourhoods nicer to live in 07 August 2023
A lot of municipalities work with a points system to encourage construction projects to take biodiversity and creating green areas into account. But t...
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Leiden industrial ecologist and Italian pharma company receive an EU grant to realise sustainable drug production 20 July 2023
With a €1.5 million European grant, industrial ecologist Stefano Cucurachi will work on more sustainable production methods for the pharmaceutical ind...
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Professor Ester van der Voet Honored with International Society Award in Industrial Ecology 06 July 2023
Ester van der Voet received the International Society Award in Industrial Ecology. She is awarded this price for her outstanding contributions and lea...
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Tackling climate change with the ground beneath our feet 29 June 2023
Soil ecologist Emilia Hannula has been awarded a Vidi grant by NWO to examine how soil could become a promising ally in combating climate change and i...
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‘Ask scientists how to build the circular economy’ 27 June 2023
Some governments and companies are pursuing a more circular economy, but what is the best way to get there? An international group of industrial ecolo...
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Nitrogen experts suggest switching from deposition to emission policy 16 June 2023
In an essay Professors Jan Willem Erisman (Leiden University), Chris Backes (Utrecht University) and Wim de Vries (Wageningen University) suggest amen...
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How polluting buildings and machinery make rich countries ever richer 06 June 2023
Rich countries are getting richer because of environmentally polluting (construction) investments from the past, largely at the expense of poor countr...
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Start pilot cultivating rice on peatland 23 May 2023
Is polder rice a feasible circular alternative for cows on peatland? A pilot experiment started this week. On May 22nd, researchers from Leiden Univer...
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If we do nothing, more plants will go extinct 15 May 2023
A wide range of plant species is essential to our earth because of the different materials and foods these plants provide. But plant diversity has dec...
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Bottom-dwellers thrive at foundations of offshore wind farms 02 May 2023
Offshore wind farms host more soil animals per square meter than the North Sea floor, discovered Leiden researchers. After 25 years, hundred times mor...
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Sustainability prize for research into the effects of a plant-based diet 28 April 2023
Paul Behrens and his team have won the Frontiers Planet Prize of half a million euros for their research into the effects of switching to a plant-base...
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Border tax on CO2 offers huge opportunity to fight climate change 22 April 2023
A tax on CO2 emissions from products entering the EU offers unprecedented opportunities in the fight against global warming. That is the conclusion of...
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Leiden scientist addresses UN: 'People should not work for the economic system, the economic system should work for the people' 20 April 2023
Environmental scientist Rutger Hoekstra addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations on 12 April. And that’s quite a big thing to do. How do y...
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Should we build a European mega-dam? 20 April 2023
A mega-dam around Europe is a possible solution as protection against rising sea levels. Whether that is really a good idea, was debated on by young p...