In the Media

THESys member Prof. Tobias Krüger talks to the taz about the state of the Panke. Berlin’s fourth largest river is heavily influenced by human hand – with increasingly poor water quality and a lack of biodiversity. Its renaturation must proceed more quickly.

hr-iNFO reports on the citizens’ dialogues of THESys researcher Theresa Frommen. In Gersfeld, citizens discussed the future of the Rhön and its water resources in the face of climate change.

If a green pivot is to happen, power grids must become “supergrids”. In a YouTube video by Bloomberg Quicktake, different experts explain what this means and what the challenges are. One of them is THESys member Gretchen Bakke, who takes us back to the early days of the electric grid.

In Berlin University Alliance’s series Wissen Aus Berlin, THESys director Jörg Niewöhner and ecologist Britta Tietjen (FU)  discuss their work in the new Einstein Research Unit (ERU) Climate and Water under Change (CliWaC)—a transdisciplinary research initiative dedicated to the investigation of water-related risks of climate change in the Berlin-Brandenburg region.