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Hardly any group of organisms on our planet has been researched as little as lentic fungi. IGB scientist Hans-Peter Grossart collected ten fascinating facts about these organisms.

Dörthe Tetzlaff und colleagues from the University of Aberdeen developed and testet model on the spread and fate of faecal bacteria in rivers and their surrounding landscapes.

15 girls on board for the Girls' Day at IGB - curious and everything but hydrophobic! 

In its statement, the Senate of the Leibniz Association attests a positive development of IGB and recommends that the Federal Government and the Länder continue funding the institute.

In March 2019, IGB researchers and technicians sampled the Spree and its tributaries. They have been doing this once a year since 2015, from the source in Upper Lusatia to the estuary into the Havel. The background is the contamination with sulphate and iron from the brown coal mining regions of Lusatia.

Robert Arlinghaus and international colleagues present a five-point plan to integrate recreational fishers into fisheries and nature conservation policy.

As if they had arranged to meet, a television team and a radio reporter, both from rbb, visited the LakeLab today. The team around Boris Römer filmed a video for the evening television series zibb - Zuhause in Berlin & Brandenburg (At home in Berlin & Brandenburg) and Bernd Dreiocker recorded the original sounds for a feature on rbb kulturradio.

Freshwaters play a central role when it comes to recreational activities. Markus Venohr and Christian Wolter are investigating how such activities affect the ecosystems of lakes and rivers in the new AQUATAG project.