News
-
Ecologist Michiel Veldhuis is the Discoverer of the Year 2020 25 February 2021
Michiel Veldhuis received the most public votes for the C.J. Kok Public Award and may therefore call himself Discoverer of the Year. Veldhuis research...
-
New study helps policymakers combat global warming with negative-emissions technology 18 February 2021
Cutting down global emissions of greenhouse gases to combat global warming won’t do the trick alone: we also need negative-emissions technology that c...
-
Nanoparticles: shapeshifters that pass along the food chain and end up in the brain 09 February 2021
Nanomaterials can pass much further along the food chain than was previously thought. The particles can change shape and size in each organism, enabli...
-
A circular economy is about much more than just recycling 01 February 2021
It’s Circular Economy Week, from 1 to 6 February. But what is it that makes an economy circular? And just how circular is our university? René Kleijn,...
-
Making a technology sustainable that doesn’t even exist yet 26 January 2021
Industrial ecologists Stefano Cucurachi and Flora Siebler are part of the new consortium PROGENY, which received 3.6 million euros from the European C...
-
Report: what does our urban mine have to offer? 21 January 2021
On 21 January, the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) has released two reports on circular economy and urban mining in the Netherlands. In them...
-
How to share responsibility for polluting the atmosphere? 04 January 2021
In our globalised economy, goods and services are frequently produced abroad. Is it the producer or the consumer that should be held responsible for g...
-
Promising test in Peru: tackling climate change whilst reducing poverty 17 December 2020
What if we start taxing carbon-intensive products such as electricity and gasoline, and at the same time compensate low-income households? Hauke Ward ...
-
Microbes buried at the bottom of the sea start flourishing after 80.000 years 10 December 2020
In otherwise energetic desserts at the bottom of the sea, researchers have found oases where microbes can harvest energy. Remarkably, the microbes fir...
-
ERC Consolidator Grants for four Leiden researchers 09 December 2020
From fake news via WhatsApp to mini hearts from a 3D printer: four Leiden researchers have been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research ...
-
A multi-million grant to keep the biological clock healthy 25 November 2020
Dutch researchers are joining forces to conduct research together with a series of societal partners to keep the biological clock healthy in our moder...
-
Nutrient-rich water is heaven for disease-spreading mosquitoes 17 November 2020
When mosquito eggs hatch in nutrient-rich water, the mosquitoes are larger and they can also fly further. That is the first conclusion of a study from...
-
Here is how students help the municipality of Leiden to build sustainably 12 November 2020
The municipality of Leiden aims for circular construction, but how do you reconcile that with the growing demand for housing? For the Kennisatelier Du...
-
Renewed online atlas provides better insight into pesticides in surface waters 24 September 2020
On 24 September the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) in Leiden will launch the new version of the Pesticides Atlas in cooperation with Rijksw...
-
Why plants in wetlands are highly productive 09 September 2020
Environmental scientists in Leiden have found that the so-called leaf economics spectrum for plants can not only be applied to terrestrial ecosystems,...