Videos

Exploring the importance of ponds

Why are ponds important? What threats do they face? And how can PONDERFUL help? Ponds have been largely overlooked but they are vital for biodiversity – and could even help us adapt to climate change. Discover more about these rich and fascinating habitats, how can they help to protect wildlife and their importance to humans as a nature-based solution. This video was created by the PONDERFUL project and received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 869296. Find out more about the PONDERFUL project.

Join the AQUACOSM network

AQUACOSM is an integrated, international network of experimental infrastructures of 21 marine and freshwater research institutes. The goal of this networking is a better coordination of future research projects, joint developing of best practices and opening of the mesocosms of both fresh water and marine research institutes for international, interdisciplinary cooperation.

Climate change drives widespread shifts in lake thermal habitat

Global warming is increasing the temperatures of lakes worldwide. Benjamin Kraemer teamed up with colleagues to quantify the long-term temperature changes in 139 lakes worldwide. They analysed shifts in thermal habitats – the temperature conditions needed by species to survive – and found that as lakes warm, species will need to shift to different depths or seasons.

Selected publications

July 2025

Microbial communities and fatty acid markers across acidification and eutrophication extremes in a river influenced by mining activities

Olga Tammeorg; Theis Kragh; Gertrud K. Nürnberg; Laurence Carvalho; Brian Huser; Tom Jilbert; Renata Augustyniak-Tunowska; Tallent Dadi; Kurt Friese; Laura Grinberga; Jolanta K. Grochowska; Sigrid Haande; Laura H. Härkönen; Michael Hupfer; Kenneth Irvine; Priyanka Jamwal; Anna-Marie Klamt; Zhengwen Liu; Yvonne McElarney; Maira Mucci; Deniz Özkundakci; Dāvis Ozoliņš; Emma Polauke; Karen Portilla; Kasper Reitzel; Karsten Rinke; Ilkka Sammalkorpi; Jouko Sarvala; Charlotte Schampera; Antonio M.M. Silva; Agnija Skuja; Bryan M. Spears; Priit Tammeorg; Haijun Wang; Peiyu Zhang; Miquel Lürling
Science of the Total Environment. - 994(2025), Art. 180001

From angling to the water cycle

All IGB topics at a glance

20 freshwater species that deserve our attention