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Geert de Snoo new Director of Netherlands Institute of Ecology 04 April 2019
Professor Geert de Snoo, Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University, has been appointed Director of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIO...
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‘We have world-class expertise on the circular economy’ 01 April 2019
The province of Zuid-Holland faces a wide range of global sustainability issues caused by urbanisation, intensive horticulture and industry. The unive...
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UN calls for urgent rethink as resource use skyrockets 21 March 2019
The International Resource Panel of the United Nations Environment Programme, with CML researcher Ester van der Voet as member, has prepared a report ...
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Economic expansion and land use cause bird extinction 05 March 2019
Population growth, economic expansion and the associated land use caused an increase in the number of bird species facing extinction and a reduction i...
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Leiden University Day in China 26 February 2019
A Leiden University Day, new agreements on exchanging PhD students and a keynote speech by Geert de Snoo at a popular symposium. In November, a Facult...
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New regional pesticides atlas developed 25 February 2019
A new regional atlas, with information about the presence of pesticides in surface waters, has been developed by the Institute of Environmental Scienc...
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Online Experience 2.0 Urban Studies - City Biodiversity 21 February 2019
CML researchers Nadia Soudzilovskaia, Rene Kleijn, Stefano Cucurachi, and Kevin Groen are teaching about the links between city sustainability and bio...
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Green light for master's programme Governance of Sustainability 19 February 2019
In September 2019, the first students will start the new master's programme Governance of Sustainability. The programme has received an official accre...
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Was the EU’s ban on electric fishing the right decision? 18 February 2019
Last week, on 13 February 2019, the EU approved the ban on pulse trawling. This followed the vote for a ban by the European Parliament on 16 January 2...
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Stans Prize 2018 for Louie Krol 12 February 2019
The ‘Stans Prize 2018' (for the best thesis, report or article produced by a CML student) has been awarded to Louie Krol. Other CML prizes were award...
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How meat substitutes in your lasagne can help save the planet 12 February 2019
National Meat Free Week, from 11 to 17 March, encourages us to choose the environmentally friendly option more often. But apart from preventing animal...
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Robbert Dijkgraaf: ‘Diversity improves science’ 08 February 2019
His Leiden honorary doctorate, the future of scientists, and diversity in science. Robbert Dijkgraaf tells about it in one of the classical rooms of t...
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SUNRISE: from sunlight to smart city 01 February 2019
The European Project SUNRISE, ‘Solar energy for a circular economy’, has been selected as one of the six Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) within...
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Cucurachi, Behrens and Matthee are teacher, discoverer, and PhD candidate of 2018 08 January 2019
Environmental scientists Stefano Cucurachi and Paul Behrens and astronomer Jorryt Matthee have received prizes during the New Year's reception of the ...
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Vote for the Discoverer of the year 2018 13 December 2018
Which brilliant scientist will be our Discoverer of the year 2018? Will it be a physicist, biologist, drug discoverer or an astronomer? Or an environm...