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From energy transition to green infrastructure in The Hague: students and municipalities join forces 23 January 2020
Can 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 doctor 13 January 2020
Two 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 talents 07 January 2020
Mathematician 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 level 23 December 2019
Early 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 economy 20 December 2019
A 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! 10 December 2019
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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Plastic Spotter: spot plastic in the canals of Leiden 27 November 2019
Help 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 animals 22 November 2019
The 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 list 20 November 2019
Seventeen 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’ 18 November 2019
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 economies 14 November 2019
Although 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 metals 11 November 2019
The 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 change 07 November 2019
A 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 hyperactive 24 October 2019
Nanoplastics influence the behaviour of larval zebrafish, says new research by the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) and the Institute of Environmenta...
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Leiden will host international conference on industrial ecology 21 October 2019
In 2021, the eleventh Conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology will take place in Leiden. The Institute of Environmental Science...