Four students of the MSc Industrial Ecology have recently been selected to participate in the accelerator programme of the EIT Climate-KIC, which help...

Professor Geert de Snoo, Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University, has been appointed Director of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIO...

Population growth, economic expansion and the associated land use caused an increase in the number of bird species facing extinction and a reduction i...

The documentary invites us to consider the question of what we consider valuable knowledge. “We need to realise that doing and thinking are intertwine...

National Meat Free Week, from 11 to 17 March, encourages us to choose the environmentally friendly option more often. But apart from preventing animal...

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 ...

Ries Kamphof conducted research into European sustainability policies; his findings are that the European Committee very rarely uses her authority. ‘T...

For students who want to be an intermediary between scientific experts, policy makers and politicians in the domain of sustainability, the master prog...

Thinking up solutions for global issues such as environmental pollution and poverty. This is what young people from all over the world will be doing a...

By 2050, 70 per cent of the world's population will live in cities. This has major consequences for the lives of city-dwellers and for the environment...

More than half of the Indonesian population lives in cities. What does this mean for public health? How sustainable are these megacities? This is the ...

How do you study complex disasters like a nuclear explosion or a natural disaster? Who can help unravel the legal knot that Brexit has become? The imp...

The Municipality of The Hague called on researchers to come up with a proposal for an innovative research project on problems big cities face such as ...

Ebru Alazi ‘hacked’ an enzyme-producing system in the fungus Aspergillus niger in order to produce renewable energy more easily. She manipulated the f...