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From energy transition to green infrastructure in The Hague: students and municipalities join forcesCan students help make our cities more sustainable and resilient? The Resilient Cities Hub thinks so: during its knowledge café on 16 January, passion...
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From camel keeper to doctorTwo terrifying yellow eyes stared at eleven-year-old Francis Lesilau. In the evening light they changed colour: green, amber, back to yellow... The li...
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Faculty of Science starts new year with awards for talentsMathematician Robbin Bastiaansen, physicist Irene Battisti, pharmacist Fouzia Lghoul-Oulad Saïd and physics and astronomy student Maite Boden are the ...
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This is how virtual reality brings education to the next levelEarly December, lecturer Joris Timmermans gave the first virtual reality lecture at the Institute of Environmental Sciences. Together with the Centre ...
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Tsinghua and Leiden researchers find that China is crucial for realising a circular economyA new study on the province level material footprint of China underscores the need to improve resource efficiency in the country, which would be cruci...
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GDP? Get rid of it!Gross domestic product (GDP) is the most powerful indicator in the world. And that while a large part of the scientific community sees it as an outdat...
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Importing goods from sustainable countries could lower EU’s environmental footprintA recent study in Ecological Economics, led by Leiden environmental scientist Bertram de Boer, states that the European Union could lower its environm...
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Plastic Spotter: spot plastic in the canals of LeidenHelp us spot and clean up the plastic in the canals of Leiden! Leiden University is calling on the good folk of Leiden to help our researchers study t...
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Dietary guidelines in these six countries are a win-win-win for nutrition, environment, and animalsThe national dietary guidelines in Australia, Brazil, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, and Slovenia benefit nutrition, environment and animal welfare, Leiden...
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17 Leiden researchers on highly cited listSeventeen Leiden University scientists appear on the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list, which was announced on 19 November by Clarivate Analytics.
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Discoverer of the Year Paul Behrens: ‘We’re running out of time’Earlier this year, the public voted environmental scientist Paul Behrens Discoverer of the Year 2018. Behrens is an interdisciplinary scientist who wa...
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How a global carbon price would weaken Eastern European and Asian economiesAlthough seen as the fastest and cheapest way to global climate protection, a uniform global carbon price would have major consequences for the econom...
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Transition to electric vehicles puts heavy pressure on production of critical metalsThe current production of a number of critical metals is insufficient for the large-scale transition to electric vehicles. This is the conclusion of a...
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Together, plants and fungi could slow down climate changeA special relationship between plants and fungi, which plays an important role in carbon storage in soil, has the potential to slow down climate chang...
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Plastic nanoparticles make larval zebrafish hyperactiveNanoplastics influence the behaviour of larval zebrafish, says new research by the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) and the Institute of Environmenta...