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‘Dare to experiment – and to fail’Stefano Cucurachi and José Mogollón (Institute of Environmental Sciences, CML) share the most important lessons from their webinar ‘Building a sense o...
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Climate change presents African grazers with tricky decisionLions 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 protectionResearchers from the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) identified six top priorities where environmental interventions can make the most diffe...
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CML Stans Prize 2019CML 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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The city as an urban mineRaw 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 forcesCan 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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This is how virtual reality brings education to the next levelEarly 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 economyA 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!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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Transition to electric vehicles puts heavy pressure on production of critical metalsThe current production of a number of critical metals is insufficient for the large-scale transition to electric vehicles. This is the conclusion of a...
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Plastic nanoparticles make larval zebrafish hyperactiveNanoplastics influence the behaviour of larval zebrafish, says new research by the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) and the Institute of Environmenta...
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These animal species are dear to us, but can we protect them?Animal species that are dear to us in the Netherlands often spend a large part or all of their lifecycle in other parts of the world. But their habita...
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'Lower emissions and successful farming can go hand in hand'Circular agriculture and more nature are important to reduce harmful emissions and to give a new impetus to biodiversity. But is that compatible with ...
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Rene Kleijn on BNR radio about critical materialsThe recent trade dispute between the U.S. and China has renewed the attention for the dependency of the U.S. and many other developed countries on the...
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Dutch National Research Agenda supports five ‘Leiden’ public-private projectsThe Dutch National Research Agenda announced today that it will provide 17 research projects with a total of 61 million euros in funding. Researchers ...