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New lecture series on sustainability 14 February 2018
What are the implications for life on Earth of the declining numbers of insects? How does the ever increasing stream of of energy and material flowing...
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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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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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How a nationally recommended diet can improve the environment 04 December 2017
Changing your diet can improve both your health and the environment. A new study shows that the national dietary recommendations on reducing animal pr...
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Metal constraints for a low-carbon economy? 17 November 2017
This was the question Leiden researchers from the Institute of Environmental Sciences CML posed in an article published last week in the journal Resou...
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CML presents the circular economy at the European Academy of Sciences 16 November 2017
On 26 and 27 October 2017, the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC) organized its annual meeting at the Academy of Sciences in Lisbon, Portugal. Pro...