… Fritz Hertel/UBA Roald Amundsen said, “We must not cease to remember with gratitude and admiration the first seafarers who navigated their ships through storms and fog … the Antarctic our knowledge of it has grown steadily, and so has our responsibility for this fragile ecosystem. last update on 29.02.2016 Why the Antarctic must be … biological monitoring on Fildes Peninsula (Maxwell Bay, Antarctic) Detrimental effects of underwater noise Assessment of communication masking in Antarctic marine …

… Protocol on Water and Health The protocol is a legally-binding instrument on water and health in the … countries of the geographic area of Europe, as well as all succession states of the former Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. The Protocol … small-scale water supplies and sanitation under the current workplan. Comprehensive data on small-scale water supplies in the countries of the European Region was …

… toxic substances can be found in almost everything. The purpose of environmental and health protection is to steadily reduce the number of toxic substances in … and products. It requires a great deal of expertise and knowledge of the market. Information must be available on the hazardous properties of these substances, their … What analysis methods exist for toxic substances in products? Where and how is data on hazardous substances in products documented? Where can one find products …

… S. Marahrens / Umweltbundesamt The world’s soils are neither barren nor dead, for they constitute the habitats of one trillion times more bacteria than there are … The activities of soil fauna suppress bacteriostasis (i.e. an inhibiting effect on microbes) for processes such as ecto- or endosymbiosis. But above all, … regularly as part of an official monitoring program. The currently available data strikes us as being inadequate for assessing soil habitat functions for broad …

… Benzene is an organic, chemical compound with an aromatic odour. It is carcinogenic and a content of petrol. last update on 25.05.2021 Emission sources Formerly refueling was an important benzene emission source. This problem was solved … are critical because benzene and its products of catabolism can cause cancer. Air quality standards There is an Europe-wide limit value of 5 µg/m³ as annual mean that …

… environmental pollution. The EU’s CORINE Land Cover (CLC, Coordination of Information on the Environment) program provides harmonized and thus comparable land … for all EU member states. last update on 20.04.2015 Harmonized land cover data for Germany, via the CLC program CLC provides a trans-national concept and … Links Corine Land Cover - Germany Publications Updating the Land Use and Land Cover Database CLC for the Year 2012 - „Backdating“of DLM-DE from the Reference Year 2009 …

… Environmental Specimen Bank: Ice cold in the name of protection of the environment and health Source: Umweltbundesamt The Environmental Specimen Bank (ESB) serves to … degrees Celsius so that chemical composition of the substances remains unchanged for decades.  The archive for environmental specimen is located at the Fraunhofer … by means of a standardised questionnaire, Retrospective analysis: reviewing earlier data with new analytical procedures as well as determining the extent to which older …

… stability, the soil particles are compacted; this in turn degrades soil quality. And as farm equipment grows ever heavier, problems can result. last update on 10.03.2014 Is soil compaction a problem? Farm, forestry and construction equipment has become ever more powerful and ever heavier … Workshop, Kampala, Uganda – Sept 2017 Related publications Test battery for the effect determination of chemicals in soils: Suitability of test systems with …