The six selected projects include innovative approaches to replacing animals used in experiments with cell cultures as well as new strategies to improve animal welfare and reduce the number of living animals necessary.

Two years ago, researchers from Eawag and EPFL posted a publicly accessible 3D model on www.meteolakes.ch that uses current and forecast data from MeteoSchweiz, hydrological data from the Federal Office for the Environment and satellite data to map lake water temperatures.

On 6 June 2019 in the KKL Lucerne, the Building Award was presented for the third time. A total of 21 projects had been nominated.

Better nutrient management in catchment areas can, to some extent, mitigate critical impacts on lakes, such as reduced oxygen concentrations at deeper layers or cyanobacterial blooms in late summer.

The preferred food of pike in shallow lakes in Denmark and Sweden is roach. Seven in ten fish found by researchers in the stomachs of pike were roach - and the numbers tended to be even higher in wintertime.

The insecticide imidacloprid is one of the strongest insect toxins and belongs to the group of neonicotinoids.

Darwin himself recognised the principle of adaptive radiation as being an important process in evolution.

Carsten Schubert has been researching in the Department Surface Waters since 2001, which he is head of since 2012.