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Beestieboys visit Philippine crocodile project 07 November 2016
The VPRO children’s television show Beestieboys visited the Philippine crocodile project of the Mabuwaya Foundation. Presenters Tim and Nicolaas met C...
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Symposium Human - Wildlife conflicts in Africa 2016 01 November 2016
The symposium “Human-Wildlife conflicst in Africa” was held on the 27th October in the Academie gebouw of Leiden University in honor of the retirement...
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Royal decoration for Hans de Iongh 28 October 2016
Hans de Iongh, associate professor at the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), was named 'Officier in de Orde van Oranje Nassau' on Thursday 27 ...
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Nitrogen deposition elements through the food web – impacts on butterflies and moth species 18 October 2016
Nitrogen deposition does not only affect plant biodiversity, but also strongly affects the composition of the remainder of the food web, through the c...
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CML highly successful in the European Institute of Technology Raw Materials programme 27 September 2016
Last week, the results of the 2016 call for proposals of the European Institute of Technology Raw Materials (EIT RM) became available. Both Leiden Uni...
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Support the Living Lab for research on hazardous compounds in 36 ditches 19 September 2016
Researchers from the Institute of Environmental Sciences of Leiden University started crowdfunding to raise 15.000 euro to build a laboratory in natur...
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Europe is the only continent living at the expense of others 12 September 2016
Europe can only maintain its level of consumption by structurally relying on resources extracted abroad. This finding was published in the September i...
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Start Minor Sustainable Development 08 September 2016
Monday 5 September the eighth edition of the interdisciplinary Minor Sustainable Development started. With 65 students coming from more than 20 differ...
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CML researchers contribute to development of Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas 05 September 2016
CML researchers has contributed to development of the first-ever Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas , which has been published recently by the European Jo...
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Students searching for biological ways to prevent tundra fires 05 September 2016
In August-September 2016 three CML students are doing an exciting field work in sub-arctic tundra in Sweden in collaboration with Ümea University.
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Lions in West and Central Africa apparently unique 10 August 2016
Lions in West and Central Africa form a unique group, only distantly related to lions in East and Southern Africa. Biologists at Leiden University con...
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EU-FP7 project IDREEM featured on Euronews TV 07 July 2016
IDREEM (Increasing Industrial Resource Efficiency in European Mariculture) is a European research project launched in 2012 to protect the long-term su...
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New Horizon 2020 project on Concrete Sustainability 06 July 2016
A new Horizon 2020 project has been awarded to Mingming Hu and Jeroen Guinée of the Department of Industrial Ecology of Institute of Environmental Sci...
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Vidi grant awarded to Nadia Soudzilovskaia (CML) 17 May 2016
On 11 May 2016 a prestigious NWO Vidi grant (NWO's Innovation Research Incentives scheme) has been awarded to Nadia Soudzilovskaia for her research pr...
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Eleven Vidi grants for Leiden 13 May 2016
NWO has awarded eleven Leiden researchers a Vidi grant of 800,000 euros. The research subjects range from Cicero and muscle dystrophy to the archaeolo...