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This year’s winners are Fengzhi He, Mandy Velthuis and Nico Martyniuk. The International Society of Limnology awards the prize every two years for the three best publications in the field of limnology.

Ramsy Agha, Thijs Frenken and Justyna Wolinska found out that a fungal infestation makes cyanobacteria easier to digest for small aquatic organisms.

A new generation of scientists is teaching the next generation about lakes and climate change with MANTEL Pieces, a set of twelve short videos for 12-14 year olds.

In view of the recent death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and all the other racist incidents every day in Germany, Europe and elsewhere, IGB wants to stress that we believe that diversity, inclusiveness and fairness are key to progress in society and research.

On today's World Biodiversity Day: The natural species diversity of fished quarry ponds is at least as high, often even greater, than that of unfished comparative lakes. This is especially true for fish.

Researchers from IGB have just published an extensive profitability analysis of an aquaponics facility that produces fish and vegetables on a large scale. The result: aquaponics can be financially rewarding.

The knowledge gained from ecohydrology enables nature-based solutions for the management of global water resources. A review article with Dörthe Tetzlaff shows the progress in ecohydrology research.

A team with Hans-Peter Grossart found out that in some cases more carbon dioxide is produced in the dry ground than in the water.