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  • Article from 30.06.2025 | Last changed: 21.07.2025

    Stabilizing our Landscape Water Balance

    Poor harvests due to heat and drought

    … recognized and is a central component of the National Water Strategy and the Action Programme for Natural Climate Protection (ANK). Several funding instruments are … conservation, and climate protection. Consistently implement existing funding programmes and strategies. Provide targeted support to municipalities and regions …

  • Article from 19.02.2014 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Soil functions

    A mole on the surface.

    … process that began after the Ice Age around 10,000 years ago and that reflects the environmental and usage conditions during this period. The structure of soil strata … durch Wasser Related publications Empirical Critical Loads of nitrogen for Europe Environmental Monitor 2024 Components for the Transformation into a Sustainable Food …

  • Article from 15.04.2025 | Last changed: 25.04.2025

    The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement

    Lettering 1,5 degrees Celsius

    … Protecting and restoring forests to capture CO 2 from the atmosphere. Technological innovation : Developing and deploying new technologies to reduce emissions. Circular … Protecting and restoring forests to capture CO 2 from the atmosphere. Technological innovation : Developing and deploying new technologies to reduce emissions. Circular …

  • Article from 18.02.2014 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Soil science

    A floor pit with differently coloured layers.

    … strong soil types differ greatly in terms of the mechanisms with which they control environmental processes. We human beings are the main beneficiaries of these … that is practiced by agricultural engineers, geographers, geologists, and lately environmental scientists who specialize in ecology. This field needs to be …

  • Article from 10.08.2020 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Large scale ecological projects

    Major projects

    … exempted investors from legal responsibility for the costs attributable to environmental damage that occurred prior to 1 July 1990, pursuant to the … agreed to undertake 21 large scale ecological projects, based on economic and environmental policy. These projects involved major industrial concerns, potassium …

  • Article from 15.04.2020 | Last changed: 15.04.2020

    Pesticides

    … Ordinance which are used in plant protection agents and biocides complied with the environmental quality standards for the period 2016-2018 at the monitoring sites of … Federal Government (LAWA ). For a further 11 substances a check for compliance with environmental quality standards is not always possible since the limit of …

  • Article from 09.10.2025 | Last changed: 10.10.2025

    Geoengineering-Governance

    atmosphere of the Earth

    … the assumption that humans are in a position to understand and control global environmental processes; secondly, the assumption that geoengineering can replace … thirdly, a policy shift leading to fundamental principles of international environmental law being thrown overboard such as emissions reductions. The consensus …

  • Article from 06.07.2020 | Last changed: 07.12.2023

    Plant safety

    … are used – and in the event of an accident, minimize the consequent health and environmental effects. At the UBA, all such measures are based on the principle of … quality, and operation of industrial installations that could potentially provoke environmental harm and other hazards due to accidents or incidents. The most …

  • Article from 21.05.2025 | Last changed: 21.05.2025

    UMID: Environment and Human Health – Information Service

    Nori-Algenflakes auf einem weißen Teller

    … It provides information on current topics in the fields of environment and health, environmental medicine and consumer protection. Each article contains an English … practice – recommendations for the implementation of an integrated approach | Newly programmed app Scan4Chem simplif ies right on information about chemicals in …

  • Article from 10.08.2017 | Last changed: 15.03.2019

    telegram: environment+health

    title telegram environment + health

    telegram: environment+health title telegram environment + health Source: Kerstin … Gebuhr / Umweltbundesamt Looking for answers to questions about health-related environmental problems - this is our daily work. In our telegram: environment + …

  • Article from 11.04.2025 | Last changed: 11.04.2025

    Monitoring and assessment

    … negative trends. In addition to traditional sampling with ships and aircraft, innovative methods such as satellite imagery and modelling are increasingly being … and Baltic Sea are regularly collected as part of the Federal and State Monitoring Programme (BLMP). These areas include estuaries, transitional waters and coastal and … and priority hazardous substances are monitored and assessed on the basis of environmental quality standards (EQS). The assessment of compliance with the EQS for …

  • Article from 02.02.2022 | Last changed: 25.07.2025

    Maritime shipping

    Sailing boat and container ship in the harbor of Hamburg

    … maritime policy.. last update on 02.02.2022 Facts about maritime shipping and its environmental impact About 6,000 years ago, ships took up conquering the oceans and … ; adopted 2004, in force since 2017) International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships ( Hong Kong Convention , adopted 2009 but …