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Lego Lost at Sea: an archaeological and environmental exhibition at the Van Steenis17 October 2024At the entrance of the Van Steenis building you may now visit an exhibition on material culture. Unexpectedly, it does not display pottery or tools, b...
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Car sharing and second-hand phones not as green as they seem, research shows14 October 2024Not all sustainable business models have the impact they claim, Leiden researcher Levon Amatuni revealed. Car sharing and phone reuse, for example, ha...
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Managing space debris through space law04 September 2024It’s becoming increasingly crowded in the orbits around Earth that are popular for space travel. And that's not just due to satellites – there's also ...
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Smart data for sustainable agriculture: less hassle, more green27 August 2024In supermarkets, consumers are drowning in a sea of sustainability labels. Confusing for them, but also farmers can't see the forest for the trees. Ob...
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Historical research helps improve biodiversity in the Leiden city centre22 July 2024The Leiden municipality wants to make the city centre climate-proof and combat heat stress by greening it. But they want to do this in a way that does...
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Ecocide in the Dutch criminal code: a good idea or justified concerns?15 May 2024Former Member of Parliament Lammert van Raan (PvdD) and alumna Eva Floris gave a guest lecture on the 13th of May on the Ecocide penalisation initiati...
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Netherlands Veganland: a good idea? These are the outcomes of the thought experiment!12 April 2024Less meat and dairy means more space for nature, leisure, climate, biodiversity, more justice, and it's good news for the economy. That's according to...
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How a local shaman can help fight climate change11 April 2024Who knows more about environmental governance: a professor of natural resource governance or a local shaman in the remote uplands of Myanmar? ‘To tack...
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How EU farm subsidies favour high-emission animal products04 April 2024More than 80 percent of the EU’s agricultural subsidies go to the production of animals or animal feed. These products are responsible for 84 percent ...
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‘The battle for sustainability won’t be won in the civil courts’18 March 2024Fossil Free against KLM on greenwashing, municipalities against Chemours on PFAS discharge, climate cases against Shell and ING Bank… There are many e...
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Students help make Maldives more fertile04 March 2024Its idyllic setting and white sandy beaches have made the Maldives a hotspot for tourists. This provides an income but is a problem for the fragile na...
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Climate and elections: these were your top stories from 202318 December 2023The year 2023 saw the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, the Wagner Group rebellion and wildfires and floods as all the weather records were smashed. Our...
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Who will pay for our energy transition?01 December 2023The Dutch Development Bank's new SDG loan fund for green energy in the global south may not be as positive as it seems. Anthropology professor Marja S...
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‘We are drowning in dossiers of which we have long known they will play a role’13 November 2023The new government needs to look further ahead, says environmental scientist Rutger Hoekstra. ‘We keep pushing forward big dossiers like demographic a...
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Archaeological laboratories visit Faculty of Science for sustainable ideas07 November 2023In 2018 the Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) was launched in the UK. The aim of this programme was to help laboratories work more sus...