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  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 11.12.2024

    WW-I-6: Low water

    The picture shows a river with a low water level. There are smallish stones and large rocks projecting from the water. The river banks are covered in high grass. There is a woodland adjacent to the river bank.

    … low-water days. Typically, low-water events can also be due to stable high-pressure systems. Accordingly, the impacts tend to be rather large-scale. Up to that time, a … Germany. In the summer months and well into September, several stable high-pressure systems resulted in heat and drought throughout Germany. For example, the German …

  • Press release 25/2022 from 02.06.2022 | Last changed: 26.08.2022

    Global, multi-stakeholder digital coalition presents plan for a green digital revolution

    Die Erdkugel und Wörter in einer Programmiersprache.

    … plays a positive social-environmental role, the Action Plan calls for 3 systemic shifts: Enable alignment: Strong, global coalitions of sustainability and … standards and objectives to prioritize the investments and resources needed to systemically align digital transformation with our sustainable development agenda. … the 2030 Agenda, we need a common science-based framework of global action aimed at systems transformation to leverage digitalization in our efforts towards a …

  • News from 21.02.2019 | Last changed: 13.11.2019

    CO2 removal should be limited to safe and sustainable measures

    wet forest

    … sees an urgent need to create appropriate framework conditions, e.g. provision of financial support, technology transfer and capacity building by developed countries. … to enhance CO 2 -sequestration in algae, could over-fertilize and damage marine ecosystems. A further approach is Bioenergy Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS), relying …

  • News from 04.04.2025 | Last changed: 04.04.2025

    More cooperation required to tackle PFAS pollution in soil

    Wildschein im Wald

    … regardless of where they were shot. All case studies emphasise the need for further systematic investigations and stricter regulations to limit PFAS exposure in order … the remediation of PFAS-contaminated soil and water is associated with considerable financial expenditure. If polluters do not (or cannot) pay for the clean-up costs …

  • Press release 41/2023 from 10.11.2023 | Last changed: 14.11.2023

    Antibiotic resistance: Study shows high pressure to take action

     a lot of pills in different colours

    … severely jeopardised,” says Dr Debiak. This would have massive health, social and financial consequences. “We need to keep an eye on production conditions worldwide, … worrying concentrations in the environment that suggest harmful effects in the ⁠ ecosystem⁠ and increased build-up of resistance,” says Dr aus der Beek. The highest …

  • Travel guide soil from 16.04.2015 | Last changed: 28.04.2023

    Soil - An Essential Resource

    … of IYS are to raise the awareness on the importance of soils as the basis for food systems, fuel and fibre production as well as for other essential ecosystem functions  as e.g. adaptation to climate change. This is of essential …

  • Press release 30/2016 from 04.10.2016 | Last changed: 23.01.2017

    Anniversary celebration of the Protocol of Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty

    Protecting the Antarctic is one of the tasks of the Federal Environment Agency.

    … It provides for the protection of the Antarctic environment within the Treaty System. The hunt for mineral resources drew the attention of mining companies to … is aimed at the protection of the Antarctic environment and its dependent ecosystems. The Act provides that all activities in Antarctica which are organised by …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    KM-I-3: Height of storm surges

    The picture shows a storm surge wave breaking over a coastal building. A metal mast is visible in the background.

    … recorded especially on the coasts and beaches. At the end of 2022, the low-pressure system Nadya first caused a low-water level followed instantly by a storm surge. Owing to the low-pressure system shifting, it first resulted in a strong south-west wind which made water … recorded especially on the coasts and beaches. At the end of 2022, the low-pressure system Nadya first caused a low-water level followed instantly by a storm surge. …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.12.2024

    BS-I-1: Person hours due to weather-related damage events

    The picture shows an inundated landscape. In the centre of the picture a flooded road can be seen, with a lorry passing. There are people visible on the lorry’s load platform. In the picture’s foreground, part of a blue emergency vehicle is visible with blue warning lamps fitted all round the vehicle which is also driving along this flooded road.

    … by severe individual events. The impacts made in 2021 by the ‘Bernd‘ low-pressure system and the associated flood disaster which struck western Germany in particular, … conducted within this framework. The responses showed that a great number of input systems were used and that there were differences in the categorisation of the …