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...

The national dietary guidelines in Australia, Brazil, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, and Slovenia benefit nutrition, environment and animal welfare, Leiden...

Although seen as the fastest and cheapest way to global climate protection, a uniform global carbon price would have major consequences for the econom...

A special relationship between plants and fungi, which plays an important role in carbon storage in soil, has the potential to slow down climate chang...

Nanoplastics influence the behaviour of larval zebrafish, says new research by the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) and the Institute of Environmenta...

How 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...

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...

Local residents, scientists and students are investigating riverbanks in Leiden for the 'Bank Plants' citizen science project. Which plant species are...

It 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...

For the first time, international researchers have mapped the network of bacteria on coral reefs. They write about it in Nature Communications (9 Apri...

The province of Zuid-Holland faces a wide range of global sustainability issues caused by urbanisation, intensive horticulture and industry. The unive...

A study of the International Union for Conservation of Nature has identified tree species native to Indonesia’s Kutai National Park that are resilient...

The European Project SUNRISE, ‘Solar energy for a circular economy’, has been selected as one of the six Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) within...

Why does it turn out to be so complicated to solve sustainability issues if everyone ‘knows’ about these problems? This was the central question in a ...

It is a warm day. The sun is shining brightly while biologist Marco Roos makes his way through the bushes towards a peculiar little plant. Insects buz...