256 search results for “life pollution” in the Student website
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How light and noise pollution disrupt aquatic life
Fish populations in lakes and rivers have declined in recent decades. This is probably due to light and noise pollution. The Horizon Europe grant enables ecologist Hans Slabbekoorn to investigate this and improve the situation for migrating fish. In order to do so, a seven-metre-long swimming tunnel…
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Sebastiaan GrosscurtScience
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Paul VriendScience
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Residence Life
"A Home Away from Home"
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Anagnostis TheodoropoulosScience
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Bèta and Life Science
HC Bèta and Life Science is the perfect course for students from the Faculty of Science and Biomedical Sciences who want to broaden their studies and their outlook on the scientific world.
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Designing Your Life
Desinging Your Life helps students at Leiden University to design their life path and face the future with confidence.
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Uni-Life
Leiden University has joined the student app Uni-life. This app gives you an overview of all student events and helps you get to know other students who share the same interests. The app shows activities organised by student associations, study organisations, faculties, clubs, the University Sports…
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Helias Udo De HaesScience
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Marc van der MeideScience
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How polluting are the clothes in your closet?
Cotton is the most widely used natural fibre for clothes. But how polluting are our jeans and shirts actually? Environmental scientist Laura Scherer coordinated an international research project on the impacts of cotton. ‘The purchases of consumers in Europe can contribute to water scarcity in China…
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Dani CrowleyScience
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Thijs BoskerScience
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How polluting buildings and machinery make rich countries ever richer
Rich countries are getting richer because of environmentally polluting (construction) investments from the past, largely at the expense of poor countries. This was shown by long-term economic and environmental data. 'The gap between poor and rich countries is widening.' Scientists from the Leiden Institute…
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Berent BarisScience
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Liselotte RambonnetScience
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God's Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life's End
Lecture, Unfolding Finitudes
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journalist to ecologist: PhD candidate researching light and noise pollution
Ecologist Sebastiaan Grosscurt became a successful wildlife journalist after graduating. But he decided to focus on science instead. He started his PhD research this year on the cumulative effect of light and noise pollution on animal behaviour.
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From Modern Marvel to Environmental Tragedy: Grant for Research into Polluted Mines in Africa
At one time, the railway from Kimberley to Kambove in Southern Africa symbolised prosperity and progress. Today, the exhausted mining towns along its route are marked by decay and pollution. Professor Jan-Bart Gewald has been awarded an NWO L grant to investigate the long-term global consequences.
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Bernhard SteubingScience
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Nina van DulmenScience
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Jeroen GuineeScience
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Lavinia ReitzScience
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Arjan de KoningScience
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Lieke WirkenFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Robert IstrateScience
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Ecology PhD student wins Dutch award for investigative journalism
PhD student and research journalist Sebastiaan Grosscurt won a Tegel in May. In the data category, Grosscurt and his colleagues won the prestigious Dutch journalism award. 'For me, ecological research and journalism are two ways of achieving the same thing.'
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Mingming HuScience
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Emilio Solis SanchezScience
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Sebastiaan DeetmanScience
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Ine AlbertsBestuursbureau
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Tineke RutgersBestuursbureau
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Stewart McDowallScience
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Nils PauliksScience
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Arnold ZiegelaarFaculty of Humanities
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Mike SlootwegScience
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Wil TamisScience
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Lauran van OersScience
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Ana Cristina Arcos MarinScience
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Mathilde VerdamFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Chengjian XuScience
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Xinpeng JinScience
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Ana Arias CalvoScience
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Jessica Kiefte-de JongFaculteit Geneeskunde
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Nethmi Sewwandi Kankanamge DonaScience
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Carina HarpprechtScience
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Mona DelvalScience
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Droovi de ZilvaScience
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Antoine CoudardScience
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Exhibition at the KOG: 'Plastic Justice – A creative take on plastic and law'
From 3 to 13 December you can see the exhibition Plastic Justice at the Kamerlingh Onnes Building. Esther Kentin, coördinator of the Leiden Advocacy Project on Plastic, saw the exhibition at the Plastic Health Summit and initiated a collaboration with the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.