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This year's winners of the Blauer Kompass contest: an innovative urban sewage system in Solingen, an educational programme on climate change for trainees in Heidelberg, a project to green a city neighbourhood in Cologne, and a shade provider operated with photovoltaic modules by the Kunsthochschule Kassel.

CAP reform offers chance for more environmentally friendly agriculture on a broad scale

Limit values only seldom exceeded – nitrate in drinking water not present in high concentrations

Wanted: Innovative ideas for environmental protection and climate action in cities

From 15 August 2018 the Act Governing the Sale, Return and Environmentally Sound Disposal of Electrical and Electronic Equipment - ElektroG will apply to virtually all types of electrical and electronic equipment. The aim is to ensure that more waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) ends up being recycled.

World penguin day on 25. April – New research project on penguin hearing launched

Persistent substances in the water can lead to long-term problems.

The stationary installations in Germany that take part in the emissions trading system emitted around 438 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents.

Energy sector emissions lower, transport sector higher

The course of these streams is often straightened, changed and deepened to drain their floodplains and make them usable for agriculture.

Statistics for 2014 indicate roughly 6,000 premature deaths due to cardiovascular diseases which are linked to background concentrations of NO2