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Leiden students offer ideas on restoring an antique ship08 March 2021How do you go about the sustainable restoration of a nineteenth-century ship without affecting its historical worth? Leiden University students from t...
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A circular economy is about much more than just recycling01 February 2021It’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,...
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Report: what does our urban mine have to offer?21 January 2021On 21 January, the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) has released two reports on circular economy and urban mining in the Netherlands. In them...
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How to share responsibility for polluting the atmosphere?04 January 2021In our globalised economy, goods and services are frequently produced abroad. Is it the producer or the consumer that should be held responsible for g...
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Promising test in Peru: tackling climate change whilst reducing poverty17 December 2020What if we start taxing carbon-intensive products such as electricity and gasoline, and at the same time compensate low-income households? Hauke Ward ...
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Here is how students help the municipality of Leiden to build sustainably12 November 2020The municipality of Leiden aims for circular construction, but how do you reconcile that with the growing demand for housing? For the Kennisatelier Du...
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Renewed online atlas provides better insight into pesticides in surface waters24 September 2020On 24 September the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) in Leiden will launch the new version of the Pesticides Atlas in cooperation with Rijksw...
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Climate change presents African grazers with tricky decision01 June 2020Lions 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 protection29 May 2020Researchers 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 201912 February 2020CML 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 mine30 January 2020Raw 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 forces23 January 2020Can 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 level23 December 2019Early 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 economy20 December 2019A 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 2019Gross 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...