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Justyna Wolinska and Ramsy Agha study organisms that until now have largely been consigned to the shadows in the scientific world: parasites. In the interview, the two scientists explain why it may be worthwhile to look for the good in what appears to be bad.

Conserving and restoring surface waters and their floodplains takes time and resources. But how can we assess whether a measure is worthwhile? Researchers at IGB recommend that ecosystem services should also be included when evaluating the success of measures in and along water bodies.

Rita Adrian has been working as a climate impact expert at IGB for 28 years. Now she is going into retirement – well, almost. In an interview, she explains how she became a limnologist, and why she believes it is right to have a quota for women in science.

Lynn Govaert has been the head of the new research group Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics. She studies how ecological and evolutionary processes shape communities and metacommunities in their response to environmental change.

IGB has submitted an expert statement on the Trans-European Transport Network.

IGB researchers gave feedback on the planned EU soil strategy.

IGB researchers reveal deficiencies in the scoping document for the Strategic Environmental Assessment on the Border River Oder.

Cooperations welcome to investigate and optimally use long-term data on changes of lakes and their organisms. The metagenome data as well as limnological and biological data come from four different types of lakes.