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Three LUF grants for talented Leiden Science researchers 25 August 2020
Fighting 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 pessimism 17 August 2020
In 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 sustainability 13 August 2020
How 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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Using DNA to look for fish species 10 June 2020
Researchers 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 decision 01 June 2020
Lions 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 protection 29 May 2020
Researchers 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 fungi 25 May 2020
Leiden researchers have compiled information collected by scientists over the past 120 years into a database of plant-fungal interactions. This import...
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New vegetation models can improve climate change predictions 12 May 2020
A new study in Nature Plants has explored the most important organising principles that control vegetation behaviour. The insights from this study can...
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Leiden one of ten BiodiverCities in Europe 07 May 2020
Leiden has been selected as one of ten cities in the European BiodiverCities project. The aim of the project is to increase the quality of life in the...
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From field work by boat to excel sheets: how the corona virus is impacting education 01 April 2020
Professor of Ecotoxicology Martina Vijver had planned an eight-week field work course for her students, but the corona virus threw a spanner in the wo...
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Three Leiden Science women in Leiden Top 50 10 March 2020
On International Women’s Day 2020, the first edition of the Leiden Top 50 was revealed, a list of 50 women who made a difference in Leiden in 2019. Am...
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CML Stans Prize 2019 12 February 2020
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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A real professor in the classroom 07 February 2020
A school lesson by a professor, for instance about the history of Africa, the climate or research and healthcare. A hundred Leiden professors told pri...
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Progress is about much more than GDP alone 03 February 2020
Environmental economist Rutger Hoekstra is a guest researcher at Leiden University. He is studying the question of how we can measure societal progres...
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The city as an urban mine 30 January 2020
Raw materials should no longer be excavated from mines, but reused from sources that are already present, such as unused underground electricity cable...