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Renewed online atlas provides better insight into pesticides in surface watersOn 24 September the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) in Leiden will launch the new version of the Pesticides Atlas in cooperation with Rijksw...
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Difference in microbiota between organic and conventional dairy farmsBacteria and fungi on organic dairy farms are significantly different from those on conventional farms. That was discovered by postdoc researcher Sofi...
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A compound that gives life as easily as it takes: Jan Willem Erisman on BBC about ammonium nitrateFollowing 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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Human disturbance of ecosystems leads to increase in disease-transmitting mosquitoesThe changes that humans are making to the landscape are beneficial for mosquitoes that spread diseases such as Zika, chikungunya and dengue. This is w...
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Why plants in wetlands are highly productiveEnvironmental scientists in Leiden have found that the so-called leaf economics spectrum for plants can not only be applied to terrestrial ecosystems,...
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Land van Ons and Leiden University start cooperation in peat meadow area in Oud AdeLand van Ons, a cooperation that buys agricultural land for the restoration of biodiversity and landscape, and Leiden University join forces. Together...
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Faculty of Science opens academic year with live stream in homely settingFrom a white leather armchair, on which Barack Obama once sat, Dean Michiel Kreutzer opened the academic year. This time not with visitors, but comple...
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Three LUF grants for talented Leiden Science researchersFighting against cancer, antibiotic resistance and disposable plastics: Ahmed Ali, Fredj Ben Bdira, and Valerio Barbarossa receive a LUF grant for the...
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Climate change: between hope and pessimismIn The Best of Times, The Worst of Times, environmental scientist Paul Behrens describes both hopeful and pessimistic scenarios for our future and th...
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Jan Willem Erisman reinforces Leiden’s environmental research as new professor of Environmental sustainabilityHow can we best deal with the current problems caused by the human impact on the nitrogen cycle? How do we make the transition to a sustainable societ...
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‘Dare to experiment – and to fail’Stefano Cucurachi and José Mogollón (Institute of Environmental Sciences, CML) share the most important lessons from their webinar ‘Building a sense o...
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Using DNA to look for fish speciesResearchers from Biomon have used DNA-techniques to find 40 different species of fish in the river Dommel. This technique is capable of detecting mor...
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Climate change presents African grazers with tricky decisionLions limit their prey, such as zebra and gnu, in their options for adapting to global warming. This is what Leiden researcher Michiel Veldhuis, from ...
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Here is how we can increase the effectiveness of global environment protectionResearchers from the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) identified six top priorities where environmental interventions can make the most diffe...
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New database reveals plants' secret relationships with fungiLeiden researchers have compiled information collected by scientists over the past 120 years into a database of plant-fungal interactions. This import...