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Tigers and people can live next to each other in India 02 February 2018
When people and tigers use the same forest, their ability to cope and co-adapt to the influences of the other is much higher than currently understo...
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Flashing lights protect livestock from lions 01 February 2018
Farmers on the outskirts of Nairobi National Park protect their livestock using flashing lights on top of the animal enclosures. This system keeps lio...
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Stans Prize 2017 for Davide De Mauro 29 January 2018
The ‘Stans Prize 2017' (for the best thesis, report or article produced by a CML student) has been awarded to Davide De Mauro. Other CML prizes were ...
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New ecological maps show a wider range of functional diversity 29 January 2018
Together with a large international team of scientists, researchers Peter van Bodegom and Nadia Soudzilovskaia of the Leiden Institute of Environmenta...
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Area studies of the Minor Sustainable Development in four countries 26 January 2018
Every January, students of the Minor Sustainable Development have the opportunity to put what they’ve learned over the last few months into practice i...
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Municipalities as testing grounds in sustainability 24 January 2018
Researching as a student how you can make your own student house free of natural gas. That is now possible because of a new collaboration between Leid...
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Nature provides more to people than material benefits 18 January 2018
The role of culture and diverse knowledge systems needs to be recognized when assessing nature’s contributions to people, a new policy forum paper in ...
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Good-natured twins on the secret jungles in the city 17 January 2018
In Dutch TV programme Early Birds, Marvin and Kevin Groen (26) showed viewers areas of nature in the city that often go unnoticed. These good-natured...
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Martina Vijver appointed as professor of Ecotoxicology 11 January 2018
Martina G. Vijver has been appointed professor of Ecotoxicology at the Institute of Environmental Sciences of Leiden University with effect from 1 Dec...
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Alireza Mashaghi Tabari is Discoverer of the Year 2017 09 January 2018
With a large majority of votes, drug researcher Alireza Mashaghi Tabari was chosen Discoverer of the Year 2017 of the Faculty of Science. This was ann...
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Learn about the Circular Economy of Metals 03 January 2018
On 22 January 2018, the Massive Open Online Course ’A Circular Economy of Metals: Towards a Sustainable Societal Metabolism’ kicks off. This course is...
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How your diet can improve animal welfare 18 December 2017
A systematic approach to quantify impacts of food consumption on animal welfare has been developed by researchers of the Institute of Environmental Sc...
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Asynchrony among plant communities stabilises ecosystem 18 December 2017
Fluctuations in individual plant communities contribute to the stability of an ecosystem as a whole, a study published in Ecology Letters shows. Nadia...
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First University Bachelor’s programme in Urban Studies in the Netherlands 15 December 2017
Leiden University has launched a unique new interdisciplinary study programme: Urban Studies. Studying Urban Studies, students will research present-d...
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Vote for Discoverer of the Year 14 December 2017
Who will be our Discoverer of the year 2017? Which one of these brilliant researchers deserves this prize for their efforts according to you? As of no...