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  • Article from 11.04.2025 | Last changed: 11.04.2025

    Monitoring and assessment

    … The large-scale distribution of macroalgae, seagrass beds or marine mammals, for example, is observed from aeroplanes. The BLMP monitoring manual contains detailed … underwater noise. Specific criteria and methodological standards for describing good environmental status were also defined for the descriptors in a supplementary …

  • Article from 02.02.2022 | Last changed: 25.07.2025

    Maritime shipping

    Sailing boat and container ship in the harbor of Hamburg

    … protecting and safeguarding the marine ecosystems in order to reach or preserve a good ecological status of the marine environment by 2020. Since maritime traffic is … regularly. They consider themselves a platform for exchanging information and best practices as well as discussing ways to pursue offences across borders. So far, NSN …

  • Article from 31.03.2025 | Last changed: 10.04.2025

    Use and Impact

    Port view of Bremerhaven with container crane and container ship.

    … be released at any time. Oil and gas extraction from the seabed remains a common practice - one that carries significant ecological risks. For example, exploration activities generate high levels of underwater noise that can …

  • Article from 11.03.2025 | Last changed: 31.07.2025

    Protecting the seas and oceans: how can it be done?

    On the picure you see the sunset about the sea

    … European level, the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) also aims to achieve good environmental status. To this end, the federal states and the coastal federal … European level, the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) also aims to achieve good environmental status. To this end, the federal states and the coastal federal …

  • Article from 01.03.2024 | Last changed: 20.08.2025

    Seas under pressure – Ocean acidification due to CO₂

    The photo shows a view of the surface of the North Sea.

    … the development of marine organisms. Indirectly, humans will also be affected, for example through the effects on commercially important species in fisheries and … problem of acidification also affects so-called upwelling areas, which provide a good food source (including for commercially utilised fish species) due to the high … that perform photosynthesis, converting CO ₂  and water into oxygen and energy. Examples of photosynthetically active organisms include seagrasses, algae, and …

  • Article from 10.12.2025 | Last changed: 10.12.2025

    Factor X - Intelligent use of natural resources

    The photo shows a solar park and several wind turbines

    … them. The film ends with the camera moving through the town of tomorrow with many examples of sustainable approaches. Associated content Source: Umweltbundesamt … them. The film ends with the camera moving through the town of tomorrow with many examples of sustainable approaches. … Factor X - Intelligent use of natural resources …

  • Article from 10.12.2025 | Last changed: 10.12.2025

    Resource use in Germany

    Opencast mining with large machines

    … trade: although it imports, both directly and indirectly, more raw materials and goods than it exports, there is a considerable surplus in its monetary trade …

  • Article from 10.04.2025 | Last changed: 12.01.2026

    Visit us

     The UBA building in Dessau-Roßlau from above. The building is elongated, with a façade of wood and coloured glass slabs and slanted solar cells covering the entire surface of the flat roof

    … Agency in Dessau The Federal Environment Agency (UBA) Building in Dessau in practical Operation The Landscape Architecture UBA builds answers Documents …