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The University has ambitious plans for reducing the environmental impact of its activities. To this end we have taken university-wide measures in the form of improved building sustainability, sustainable energy and water-saving measures. As an employee, you can also contribute to lowering the environmental…

Sjoerd Lopik in Mr. Online on environmental criminal law News - 9 May 2023
Dutch online news platform Mr. Online interviewed external PhD student Sjoerd Lopik about the development of environmental criminal law in the Netherlands and about his experiences combining his job as a researcher with his work in the legal practice.

Algorithms combat environmental pollution from ships News - 4 April 2022
Did you know that algorithms can help with the prevention of air pollution and ships sinking in the sea? A team of Leiden University researchers have worked together with the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management to look in data-driven inspection of ships. In this interview, Gerrit Jan…

Jan Boersema Professor of Fundamentals of environmental sciences
Science

Assessing total environmental impact is becoming even more important News - 27 October 2023
Life cycle assessment (LCA) reveals the total environmental impact of products or production processes, and EU rules are going to make this even more important.

NSCR Lecture series 2022: Restorative Justice and Environmental Harms Announcement - 29 March 2022
Research

New eDNA method opens doors for environmental research News - 22 September 2022
With a single sample of water or soil, researches can analyse the DNA of everything that is living in that environment. During her research, PhD candidate Beilun Zhao discovered a way to analyse not only the kind of species, but also the age of the species in a water sample. The method showed its first…

Research project into environmental tipping points receives €10 million News - 25 October 2022
Arjen Doelman (Leiden University), Max Rietkerk (Utrecht University), Ehud Meron (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) and Isla Myers-Smith (University of Edinburgh) received an ERC Synergy grant of 10 million euros with their RESILIENCE project. The researchers will investigate whether and how tipping…

A better world begins with bringing together economic law, environmental law and human rights News - 30 November 2023
Economic law, environmental law and human rights are important fields of law for sustainable development. But they do not interact sufficiently, which makes it difficult to implement sustainable development.

Hai Lin Professor of Data analysis for environmental modelling
Science

Papers symposium on experimentation and innovation in human-environmental links across the Americas Announcement - 5 June 2024
Research

Four Leiden Scientists: 'Environmental risks of new pesticides with nanoparticles insufficiently examined' News - 25 January 2024
The environmental risks of new pesticides containing nanoparticles are inadequately researched, according to four Leiden scientists in the scientific journal Environmental Science & Technology. They call for an examination of the long-term and environmental effects of pesticides containing nanoparti…

Alex Geurds receives NWO Vici grant for investigating human-environmental engagement across Central America & Colombia News - 2 March 2023
During pre-Columbian times, the Central American isthmus was marked by dynamic exchange and human mobility. Despite this, indigenous communities were archaeologically stable between AD 300 and the 16th-century Spanish colonisation, contrasting with the cycles of florescence and decline of neighbouring…

Thinking and defining protection against disasters in times of environmental disruptions Announcement - 21 November 2023
Research

Environmental Colonialism in Palestine Event - 24 April 2024
Panel

Archaeozoology is essential to modern environmental management Event - 7 November 2023
Lecture