Videos und Podcasts

Breaking the Wall of the Silent Freshwater Biodiversity Crisis

IGB researcher Sonja Jähnig is a Falling Walls finalist in the category of life sciences. In her five-minute video she explains which wall her research is taking down: the wall of the silent freshwater biodiversity crisis.

Breaking the Wall to Sustainable Fisheries

Combining robust science with stakeholder engagement makes Robert Arlinghaus a Falling Walls finalist in the category of science engagement.

Can society turn down damaging levels of light pollution? | FT Rethink

Artificial light is proving to be an ever-growing threat to biodiversity. It's harmful to pollinating insects, bats and a host of other creatures, including zooplankton, a crucial part of the aquatic food chain.

Chara-Seen: Ein Erprobungs- und Entwicklungsvorhaben des BfN

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.

Climshift project: regime shifts in freshwater ecosystems

While a response to global climate change might be gradual, abrupt changes are possible when critical thresholds by additional effects of local stressors are exceeded.

Column experiment with trace organic compounds and benthic organisms

This video shows a column experiment simulating bank filtration to investigate the effects of benthic organisms (Nuttall's waterweed and Quagga mussels) on trace organic compounds.