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Salt discharges must be reduced and river development stopped to regenerate the Oder River

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Baltic sturgeon stocked after environmental disaster

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"Fatal risk from dammed rivers"

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25 November 2024

Art and science open up new perspectives on the interplay between humans and nature

What does community look like in and along rivers? As part of Berlin Science Week 2024, IGB researchers, artists and the public immersed themselves in the diverse habitats of the Oder and Spree rivers from 1 to 10 November.

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7 May 2024

600 Baltic Sea sturgeons released into the Oder River

Together with Dr Jörn Gessner from IGB and the Director of the Lower Oder Valley National Park, Dirk Treichel, Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke today released 600 sturgeons into the Oder River near Criewen.

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8 February 2024

Oder River disaster: What is known about the alga Prymnesium parvum?

In July and August 2022, a man-made environmental disaster occurred in the in the Oder River: a mass die-off of fish, mussels and snails that started in the Polish section of the Oder and then continued downstream until it reached the border Oder.

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26 June 2023

Salt discharges must be reduced and river development stopped to regenerate the Oder River

Today, Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke visited the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) in Berlin to learn about the first interim results of the special investigation programme on the environmental disaster in the Oder River (“ODER~SO”), which has been funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, N

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IGB Fact Sheet | State of knowledge on the toxic alga Prymnesium parvum in the Oder River

In July and August 2022, a man-made environmental disaster occurred in the Oder River. The immediate cause was a toxin-producing brackish water alga, scientifically known as Prymnesium parvum, which was able to grow en masse due to high salinity, high solar radiation, and low water flow.

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