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Three LUF grants for talented Leiden Science researchers 25 August 2020
Fighting against cancer, antibiotic resistance and disposable plastics: Ahmed Ali, Fredj Ben Bdira, and Valerio Barbarossa receive a LUF grant for the...
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Climate change presents African grazers with tricky decision 01 June 2020
Lions limit their prey, such as zebra and gnu, in their options for adapting to global warming. This is what Leiden researcher Michiel Veldhuis, from ...
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Here is how we can increase the effectiveness of global environment protection 29 May 2020
Researchers from the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) identified six top priorities where environmental interventions can make the most diffe...
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New vegetation models can improve climate change predictions 12 May 2020
A new study in Nature Plants has explored the most important organising principles that control vegetation behaviour. The insights from this study can...
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Three Leiden Science women in Leiden Top 50 10 March 2020
On International Women’s Day 2020, the first edition of the Leiden Top 50 was revealed, a list of 50 women who made a difference in Leiden in 2019. Am...
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CML Stans Prize 2019 12 February 2020
CML grants three Stans Awards each year, known as the best PhD paper, best student thesis and best outreach from the past year. The CML staff nominate...
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Progress is about much more than GDP alone 03 February 2020
Environmental economist Rutger Hoekstra is a guest researcher at Leiden University. He is studying the question of how we can measure societal progres...
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The city as an urban mine 30 January 2020
Raw materials should no longer be excavated from mines, but reused from sources that are already present, such as unused underground electricity cable...
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From energy transition to green infrastructure in The Hague: students and municipalities join forces 23 January 2020
Can students help make our cities more sustainable and resilient? The Resilient Cities Hub thinks so: during its knowledge café on 16 January, passion...
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From camel keeper to doctor 13 January 2020
Two terrifying yellow eyes stared at eleven-year-old Francis Lesilau. In the evening light they changed colour: green, amber, back to yellow... The li...
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This is how virtual reality brings education to the next level 23 December 2019
Early December, lecturer Joris Timmermans gave the first virtual reality lecture at the Institute of Environmental Sciences. Together with the Centre ...
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Tsinghua and Leiden researchers find that China is crucial for realising a circular economy 20 December 2019
A new study on the province level material footprint of China underscores the need to improve resource efficiency in the country, which would be cruci...
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GDP? Get rid of it! 10 December 2019
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the most powerful indicator in the world. And that while a large part of the scientific community sees it as an outdat...
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Dietary guidelines in these six countries are a win-win-win for nutrition, environment, and animals 22 November 2019
The national dietary guidelines in Australia, Brazil, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, and Slovenia benefit nutrition, environment and animal welfare, Leiden...
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Discoverer of the Year Paul Behrens: ‘We’re running out of time’ 18 November 2019
Earlier this year, the public voted environmental scientist Paul Behrens Discoverer of the Year 2018. Behrens is an interdisciplinary scientist who wa...