Videos und Podcasts

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.

(Bio)diversity at IGB

Biodiversity is the variety and variability of life on our Planet. It serves multiple functions in regulating chemistry of the atmosphere, water supply, production of biomass and recycling essential nutrients.

Join the AQUACOSM network

is an integrated, international network of experimental infrastructures of 21 marine and freshwater research institutes.

Hitzesommer, Tropennächte und Starkregen: Wie rüsten sich Berlin und Brandenburg für die Zukunft?

Moderiert von Wissenschaftsjournalist Ralf Nestler sprachen Christian Marx (TU Berlin/IGB), Verena Fehlenberg (BUND), Wolfgang Haupt (IRS), Rita Adrian (IGB) und Gunnar Lischeid (ZALF) über Dürren, sinkende Grundwasserspiegel und Wasserpegel, steigende Temperaturen, Baumsterben und Artenverlust sowie den wachsenden Durst der Metropole.

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.

Farting Lakes – MANTEL Pieces Episode 5

Truls Hansson, doctoral student in the Department of Experimental Limnology at IGB, has made a video on how the production of methane from lakes (‘farting’ lakes) might contribute to climate change.

Lake Ecosystem Resilience – MANTEL Pieces Episode 8

Michael Thayne, doctoral student in the Department of Ecosystem Research at IGB, explains how lakes can have a natural resilience that helps their ecosystems to recover from the effects of climate change and other human pressures.

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.

Durch Zeit und Fluss: Auf Wanderschaft mit dem Stör

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