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The new IGB Policy Brief highlights opportunities and challenges. Our researchers recommend a fundamental debate in politics and society.

It crosses ten countries, running over 2,800 kilometres from source to mouth, is a border river, and has been used as a passage for trade for millennia: the Danube is a veritable transnational river – and a challenge for freshwater management.

The State Secretary for Agriculture and the Environment of Brandenburg, Silvia Bender, visited IGB at Lake Stechlin on 20 August.

Max Lau and Michael Hupfer found out at Lake Iseo when lakes warm up as a result of climate change, the water is only partially mixed, thus promoting phosphorus accumulation in deep water.

Or how it is, to become a Dr. during Corona. Congratulations to three successful IGB doctoral students who had to defend their doctoral thesis in difficult times. We asked them how defending under those special circumstances felt.

Landscapes are heterogeneous and often contain patches of habitats – lakes are great examples for such island-like habitats. However, they form invisible networks: metacommunities.

Risk-taking individuals are expected to grow better but also die faster than the less explorative individuals, according to the hypothesis that Félicie Dhellemmes and Jens Krause have tested.

Using the example of the drought-sensitive Demnitzer Mühlenfließ in Brandenburg Dörthe Tetzlaff and her team quantified visible and invisible water flows during and shortly after the drought of 2018.