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  • Article from 11.08.2022 | Last changed: 13.10.2025

    Fachbibliothek Umwelt (Environmental Library)

    View into the environmental library in Dessau

    … will remain closed until about 2025/26 due to renovation and modernization work. The address of the temporary accommodation, which will also temporarily house … world, with branches in Dessau-Roßlau, Berlin and Bad Elster, contains more than 500,000 books, about 320,000 eBooks, more than 1,500 printed journals, … reports of research projects Here you will find final reports of research projects that are in the stock of the Environmental Library. Lists of final reports (only in …

  • Article from 14.01.2025 | Last changed: 24.10.2025

    Maps and CCE Data

    Weltkartenausschnit Fokus EU, Rezeptoren mit unterschiedlichen Farbgebungen

    … exceedances of CL for eutrophication are also used as an indicator in other frameworks of nature protection such as the EU biodiversity strategy (EEA headline indicator). The CCE is responsible for the coordination of the technical work regarding CL reporting and corresponding methodological developments under ICP … the convention parties in close cooperation with National Focal Centres (NFC). The work of the CCE also includes the assessment of CL exceedances calculated from CL …

  • Article from 27.08.2024 | Last changed: 28.11.2024

    National collaboration

    Titelbild Publication

    … of European air pollution abatement policy alternatives. NFCs are institutes that are responsible for producing the national data on critical loads/levels and … Cooperative Program of Modelling and Mapping (ICP M&M) are regularly invited by the Working Group on Effects (WGE) to update their national Critical Loads (CL) data. … of European air pollution abatement policy alternatives. NFCs are institutes that are responsible for producing the national data on critical loads/levels and …

  • Article from 22.05.2020 | Last changed: 25.06.2024

    Biodiversity as insurance: aligning economic stimulus packages

    … Biodiversity as insurance: aligning economic stimulus packages The corona pandemic reminds us how vulnerable modern societies have become through their treatment of … On today's International Day for Biological Diversity it is worth remembering that 2020 is a crucial milestone for global biodiversity conservation. To seize this … to systematically consider the value biodiversity has for society and economy when taking public investment decisions in other sectors (as the Aichi-Ziele already …

  • Article from 29.07.2025 | Last changed: 29.07.2025

    Geoengineering

    … especially the monsoon, and thus also on food security. It is also important to bear in mind that the cooling potential only relates to the average temperature. However, … during photosynthesis and bind carbon in biomass. However, CO 2 is released again when the biomass is decomposed or burned. Some CDR approaches aim to utilize the …

  • Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    BO-I-4: Temperature in the topsoil

    The picture shows a seedling emerging from moist, dark soil.

    … mobilisation and the development of most plant species set in, whereas at 5 °C and less, these processes revert to a standstill. The number of days with a soil … the length of the growth period and the mobilisation of nutrients in the soil. Whenever a daily mean temperature of 5 °C in the topsoil is exceeded – morewhen either the concentration of oxygen is too low or there is none at all. Given that soil temperature is directly dependent on sun irradiation, soil temperature …

  • Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    BO-I-3: Rainfall erosivity

    The legend comprises six categories for the rainfall erosivity (unit: kilojoules per square metre multiplied by millimetres per hour) as a district average for the years 2017 to 2021.

    Moreover, soil loss can be favoured by increasing precipitation in winter. When winter precipitation increasingly falls as rain, and when this rain falls on … in the spirit of the European Water Framework Directive (WWRL). Erosion monitoring that would cover the whole of Germany contiguously is not yet available. So far, … include potatoes, maize and sugar beet as well as numerous special crops and vineyards on steep slopes. There is a diverse range of measures available for preventing …

  • Article from 20.05.2022 | Last changed: 18.07.2022

    Good to know about nanomaterials

    Nano structures

    … Good to know about nanomaterials Nano structures are more than 1000 times smaller than the diameter of an human hair Source: … or more external dimensions. In addition, the definition also includes materials that are smaller than 1nm in two dimensions but larger than 100 nm in the third … Ministry, the Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA) participates in the Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials (WPMN) of the Organisation for Economic …

  • Article from 04.08.2015 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Soil protection law

    paragraphs

    … The Federal Soil Protection Act of 17 March 1998 ( BBodSchG ) is only applicable when other legislation – like the Fertilizer Act or urban planning and building law … concerned are listed in Article 3 BBodSchG. However, the case law requires that the substantive requirements of soil protection law contained in the Federal …

  • Article from 20.11.2025 | Last changed: 24.11.2025

    Evaluation Criteria and Guidelines

    … tasked with stipulating mandatory evaluation criteria for materials and substances that come into contact with drinking water. Previously, UBA has issued guidelines and recommendations which were less legally binding. Since the amendment of TrinkwV mentioned, these guidelines and … The German Environment Agency voluntarily offers as additional service to evaluate more starting substances not covered by DVGW-standard W 347. Evaluated starting …

  • Article from 05.03.2025 | Last changed: 05.03.2025

    Distributing drinking water

    … material properties. However, lead dissolves in water in concentrations which bear a risk to health and is therefore not suitable as a material for drinking water … and valves - are used which might be partially released into the water and, in doing so, would affect its quality. Organic substances in particular can also … S1 sample according to the sampling recommendations . Sampling recommendations When it comes to the evaluation of the contamination of drinking water with metals …

  • Article from 27.03.2023 | Last changed: 27.03.2023

    National Water Strategy

    … regime for the long term – prevent water scarcity and conflicting goals Ensure that land use in rural and urban areas is compatible with water bodies and adapted … Strengthen efficient administrations, improve data flows, optimise legal frameworks and secure financing Intensify protection of marine areas (North and Baltic … regime for the long term – prevent water scarcity and conflicting goals Ensure that land use in rural and urban areas is compatible with water bodies and adapted …