161 search results for “biodiversity” in the Staff website
-
How the eating habits of a limited group of Americans determine sustainability
Masses of hamburgers, steaks, cheese and a lot of eggs: Americans love their animal products. But researcher Oliver Taherzadeh discovered that only a relatively small group of high-volume consumers need to modify their diet to achieve an enormous environmental gain.
-
In pictures: animal mummies in a scanner
The story of Tutankhamun, the Egyptian pharaoh, is world famous. But did you know that the Ancient Egyptians mummified not only people but animals too? The National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden recently put a bunch of animal mummies through a CT scanner. This was in collaboration with Canon Netherlands…
-
‘We are drowning in dossiers of which we have long known they will play a role’
The new government needs to look further ahead, says environmental scientist Rutger Hoekstra. ‘We keep pushing forward big dossiers like demographic ageing, climate and migration. Even though we know they play a big role in our future.’ Hoekstra therefore hopes that the new coalition agreement will…
-
Museumnacht Leiden 2022
Festival
-
SAILS Lunch Time Seminar Sustainability
Lecture
-
'Hello World!' lecture, by Frans W. Saris
Lecture
- IBL Symposium 2022
-
Liveable planet lunch meeting - Learning from Ancient Water Systems
Lecture
-
Standing up for science workshop
Course
-
Liveable Planet Lunch Series “A Forest of Knowledge – Investigations on foraging cognition in tropical forest foragers”
Lecture
-
Opening Academic Year
Academic ceremony