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Missing or vague definitions and standards make it difficult to plan and evaluate aquaponic systems properly. Researchers from IGB have now tightened up the definitions and created a calculation model for resource use.

Together with partners from science, environmental education and nature conservation, IGB presented interesting facts about the blue-green metropolis supporting the Long Day of Urban Nature.

Leon Kausch, Leon Nitsche and Moritz Grumann won 2nd place in the national competition in 2019. Their topic: karst waters. As follow-up funding, IGB enabled the winners to do a research internship.

New research from IGB shows that current strategies for reducing the impact of light pollution do not go far enough in protecting aquatic insect species.

Today, the topping-out wreath was raised on the shell of the new joint biodiversity building of IGB and the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB). Attended and celebrated by about 70 guests on the Dahlem research campus. Of course, everyone was proud of the new building and looking forward to the closer collaboration between IGB and FUB.

The Gerhart-Hauptmann-Gymnasium in Berlin-Friedrichshagen participates in the project "S.O.S. - Schools of Sustainability" of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Today they visited IGB.

The populations of all reptile species and almost all amphibian species have declined over the past 120 years. Amphibians are particularly sensitive indicators of the state of our ecosystems. One of the Red List species experts is IGB researcher Matthias Stöck.

In the latest IGB Policy Brief on the occasion of the 2021 federal elections, scientists recommend that politicians take urgent measures to combat the massive decline in freshwater biodiversity and thus safeguard important ecosystem services.