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  • Article from 12.06.2025 | Last changed: 12.06.2025

    Serious Gaming and Sustainability

    Game controller with landscape

    … at education, the transfer of certain skills or motivation for certain actions, for example. Serious games combine typical game elements such as fun, competition and an appealing game world with educational content, for example. They therefore offer an innovative opportunity to promote sustainable … around the research project and the “Little Impacts” game. These include, for example Teaching materials for use in secondary schools (education for sustainable …

  • Article from 03.04.2020 | Last changed: 03.04.2020

    Metals

    … Mercury loads have decreased considerably in recent decades, as reflected for example in the suspended solids concentrations measured at the Schnackenburg/Elbe … transportation, historical mercury deposits in water body sediments, for example in still water regions, are the principal cause (see Elbe). In 2014-2016, … Mercury loads have decreased considerably in recent decades, as reflected for example in the suspended solids concentrations measured at the Schnackenburg/Elbe …

  • Article from 05.03.2018 | Last changed: 26.03.2018

    Nutrients in watercourses

    … values cannot always be standardised to the flow rate. For hydrology, for example, values over ten years are combined into long-term series. This method is … values cannot always be standardised to the flow rate. For hydrology, for example, values over ten years are combined into long-term series. This method is …

  • Article from 30.06.2025 | Last changed: 21.07.2025

    Stabilizing our Landscape Water Balance

    Poor harvests due to heat and drought

    … and contributes to climate protection through CO ₂ sequestration in soils. Example: The dike relocation at Sandau Süd on the Elbe River creates 124 hectares of … can do much to improve and preserve the condition of water bodies in the long term. Example: At the Alte Nebel in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, a 200-meter-wide … Monitoringbericht 2023 zur Deutschen Anpassungsstrategie an den Klimawandel Example: Rainwater management becomes educational at the Freie Waldorfschule in …

  • Article from 25.02.2014 | Last changed: 14.11.2025

    Learning about and experiencing soil

    Anthill in forest

    … the predators, parasites and scavengers that inhabit the soil, to name just a few examples. A joint initiative of the UBA, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und … the predators, parasites and scavengers that inhabit the soil, to name just a few examples. A joint initiative of the UBA, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und …

  • Article from 19.02.2014 | Last changed: 28.04.2023

    Soil development

    Rock and soil

    … rock that is fractured and comminuted by a vast array of weathering processes. For example, when water penetrates rock cracks and crevices, causing the rock to expand … is determined by the relative proportions of clay, silt and sand in the soil. For example, loamy sand is a mixture of all three elements, sand being the main one. … rock that is fractured and comminuted by a vast array of weathering processes. For example, when water penetrates rock cracks and crevices, causing the rock to expand …

  • Article from 19.02.2014 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Soil functions

    A mole on the surface.

    … archaeological artifacts and contain evidence of historical farming practices. For example, clear-cutting of entire forests in medieval times and the consequent lack … soils. Changes in soil chemistry can potentially mobilize bound substances, an example of this being increasing soil acidification provoked by lower pH values. … compounds are changed by a chemical reaction and lose their original structure, an example of this being acid buffering of a substance such as nitric acid, which …

  • Article from 04.01.2023 | Last changed: 22.08.2025

    Floods - how they form and how we influence them

    Flooded elbe river near Dessau

    … settlement space or agricultural land or to use them for navigation or hydropower (example Rhine in Figure 2). As a result, fewer natural floodplains are available … settlement space or agricultural land or to use them for navigation or hydropower (example Rhine in Figure 2). As a result, fewer natural floodplains are available …

  • 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 … that perform photosynthesis, converting CO ₂  and water into oxygen and energy. Examples of photosynthetically active organisms include seagrasses, algae, and … 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 …