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Nutrient-rich water is heaven for disease-spreading mosquitoes 17 November 2020When 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...
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Jan Willem Erisman reinforces Leiden’s environmental research as new professor of Environmental sustainability 13 August 2020How can we best deal with the current problems caused by the human impact on the nitrogen cycle? How do we make the transition to a sustainable societ...
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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...
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Dietary guidelines in these six countries are a win-win-win for nutrition, environment, and animals 22 November 2019The national dietary guidelines in Australia, Brazil, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, and Slovenia benefit nutrition, environment and animal welfare, Leiden...
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How a global carbon price would weaken Eastern European and Asian economies 14 November 2019Although seen as the fastest and cheapest way to global climate protection, a uniform global carbon price would have major consequences for the econom...
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Together, plants and fungi could slow down climate change 07 November 2019A special relationship between plants and fungi, which plays an important role in carbon storage in soil, has the potential to slow down climate chang...
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Plastic nanoparticles make larval zebrafish hyperactive 24 October 2019Nanoplastics 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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Chasing nanoplastics 17 October 2019How dangerous are micro- and nanoplastics? Do they affect the environment? What harm can they do to our bodies? Questions that we can now finally answ...
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These animal species are dear to us, but can we protect them? 11 October 2019Animal 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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Counting plants and small freshwater creatures for citizen science 17 June 2019Local residents, scientists and students are investigating riverbanks in Leiden for the 'Bank Plants' citizen science project. Which plant species are...
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Experts provide three necessary solutions to the biodiversity crisis 20 May 2019It came as a shock to many people: one million plant and animal species are threatened to become extinct. But this number isn’t the most relevant aspe...
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New dimension to coral research 10 April 2019For the first time, international researchers have mapped the network of bacteria on coral reefs. They write about it in Nature Communications (9 Apri...
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‘We have world-class expertise on the circular economy’ 01 April 2019The province of Zuid-Holland faces a wide range of global sustainability issues caused by urbanisation, intensive horticulture and industry. The unive...
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Saving threatened orang-utans with climate change-resilient trees 26 February 2019A study of the International Union for Conservation of Nature has identified tree species native to Indonesia’s Kutai National Park that are resilient...
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SUNRISE: from sunlight to smart city 01 February 2019The European Project SUNRISE, ‘Solar energy for a circular economy’, has been selected as one of the six Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) within...