235 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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Residence Life
"A Home Away from Home"
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Anagnostis Theodoropoulos
Science
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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 Haes
Science
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Marc van der Meide
Science
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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 Crowley
Science
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Thijs Bosker
Science
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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 Baris
Science
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Liselotte Rambonnet
Science
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Bernhard Steubing
Science
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Nina van Dulmen
Science
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Jeroen Guinee
Science
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Dian Triastari Armanda
Science
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Arjan de Koning
Science
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Lieke Wirken
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Robert Istrate
Science
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Plastic’s Legacy: Tracing the Path from Single-Use to Sustainable Solutions
Lecture, Studium Generale
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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 Hu
Science
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Wil Tamis
Science
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Sebastiaan Deetman
Science
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Ine Alberts
Bestuursbureau
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Tineke Rutgers
Bestuursbureau
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Arnold Ziegelaar
Faculty of Humanities
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Stewart McDowall
Science
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Nils Pauliks
Science
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Mike Slootweg
Science
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Lauran van Oers
Science
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Ana Cristina Arcos Marin
Science
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Mathilde Verdam
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Mona Delval
Science
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Chengjian Xu
Science
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Xinpeng Jin
Science
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Antoine Coudard
Science
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Ana Arias Calvo
Science
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Jessica Kiefte-de Jong
Faculteit Geneeskunde
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Nethmi Sewwandi Kankanamge Dona
Science
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Carina Harpprecht
Science
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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.
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Leiden archaeologist investigates washed up plastics with National Geographic grant
Roberto Arciero is part of RESPIRE project (Research Educational and Storytelling Project in Italian Remote Ecosystem), an international and interdisciplinary research team led by Martina Capriotti (University of Camerino) that received the National Geographic Meridian grant. Among the different topics,…
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Stefano Cucurachi
Science
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The academic life dissected
Every student learns about science, but those of the Master Honours Class ‘The Academic Life’ went an extra mile. They learned all the ins-and-outs of academia and rounded off this successful lecture series with a final session on evaluating scientific research.
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'One in five bacteria we tested were capable of breaking down plastic'
Leiden PhD candidate Jo-Anne Verschoor discovered that nearly twenty percent of the bacterial strains she studied could degrade plastic, though they needed some encouragement to do so. ‘Bacteria are just like people,’ says Verschoor. Her research was published in the journal Communications Biology,…
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Life Science Symposium 14 May
Education, Social
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What’s on? Find out in the Uni-Life app
There is more and more for students to do. Visit a film festival, follow a workshop or try a sport, for example. But how can you see at a glance what’s on and whether anyone wants to join you? Download the Uni-Life app and find out.
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Seeing Stars: Jupiter steals the show in cloudy night skies
After months of preparation, the moment of truth had arrived: would the skies above Leiden clear for the promised glitzy planet-and-star show? The people of Leiden turned out in their hundreds to go star-hunting on 25 September. They became more aware than ever of the effects of light pollution.
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Working together on the plastic problem: how to keep citizens engaged?
What motivates citizens to participate in a citizen science project on plastic pollution? And does that motivation change over time? Liselotte Rambonnet tried to answer these and other questions with her research on the Clean Rivers (‘Schone Rivieren’) project. Rambonnet is a PhD student at the Institute…