… Chemical brownfields: forest soil is very slow to forget New map shows old pollutant loads Forest soil stores … activities, the oil industry and household and industrial chimneys are in forest soils, and so are polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) which have been banned in Germany …

… How to assess land and soil degradation on global level? Water erosion is globally … several more efforts have been made to assess state and trends in global land and soils. Over time, the scope widened from drylands to total terrestrial land, and …

… More cooperation required to tackle PFAS pollution in soil Studies have shown that … alkyl substances (PFAS) find their way into drinking water and food via soils and thus into the human body. Case studies from Germany, Denmark, France, …

… Pharmaceutical residues can affect soil organisms Sewage sludge can contain … / Fotolia.com How pharmaceutical residues from sludge and slurry accumulate in the soil and what effect does this have demonstrated a workshop, the UBA held on 18 and …

… Global soil protection – What law protects effectively? Fertile soils are being lost across the world, e.g. through sealing, building or overuse. …

… International Conference: Microplastics in Soils Neue Mälzerei Friedensstraße 91 10249 Berlin Deutschland Open in OpenStreetMap …

… Video "Let´s Talk About Soil" Brown earth, one of the many types of strong soil. Source: S. Marahrens / … Talk About Soil" Links FAO World Soil Day 2014 UBA web portal: UN Year of the Soils (in German) All news Related contents Boden schützen Boden erleben und lernen …

… FW-R-3: Humus reserves in forest soils Humus is essential for storing water and nutrients and for increasing the forests’ resilience. Source: SoilPaparazzi / stock.adobe.com 2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for …

… Soil | Land Implementing SDG target 15.3 on “Land Degradation Neutrality” Development of an indicator based on land use changes and soil values Given that land and soils are increasingly threatened by degradation, …

… Soil | Land Immobilisation of nitrogen in context of critical loads Literature review and analysis of German, French and Swiss soil data Estimating the nitrogen immobilisation under steady state condition is a …