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  • Article from 12.12.2025 | Last changed: 15.12.2025

    "The Latest from UBA" Newsletter

    UBA office building in Dessau-Roßlau

    … resilience - Guide to mental health in a changing climate - Correct disposal of old medicines - Sustainability in the supermarket: retailers can do even more - New … cooling and air conditioning with natural refrigerants - Global, multi-stakeholder digital coalition presents plan for a green digital revolution - Parts of the …

  • Article from 26.06.2025 | Last changed: 08.12.2025

    European Methane Regulation

    … even after mining is completed. The gas then funnels to the surface via the old shafts. The composition depends on many parameters and can range from methane … unused, mine gas from disused coal mines escapes into the atmosphere through old tunnels and shafts and enormous quantities of natural gas escape from natural …

  • Article from 04.07.2013 | Last changed: 15.12.2025

    Site remediation

    … has proven successful. Thereby sources of contamination as well as foundations on old sites can be excavated precisely. Source: Frauenstein Investigation of … groundwater treatment plant on an installation site Contaminated groundwater on old sites requires a remediation, mostly through mobile or semi-mobile plants, as …

  • Article from 10.08.2020 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Remediation technology

    … has proven successful. Thereby sources of contamination as well as foundations on old sites can be excavated precisely. Source: Frauenstein Investigation of … groundwater treatment plant on an installation site Contaminated groundwater on old sites requires a remediation, mostly through mobile or semi-mobile plants, as …

  • Article from 22.04.2020 | Last changed: 27.06.2024

    Getting through the crisis: with the right goals in mind

    … the knowledge of all the other crises – especially the climate crisis – is calling old certainties into question. We will have to talk about fragility and resilience. … the knowledge of all the other crises – especially the climate crisis – is calling old certainties into question. We will have to talk about fragility and resilience. …

  • Article from 18.05.2020 | Last changed: 25.06.2024

    Killing two birds with one stone? Green dead ends and ways out of

    … their own interest, brings lobbyists of every shade to the scene – preferably with old wish lists on hand. On the one hand, climate change mitigation is put under … public aid should be allocated. The “Abwrackprämie” (scrapping premium to replace old by new cars) Germany introduced after the 2009 financial crisis warns as an …

  • Article from 03.09.2014 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Precautionary soil protection

    … user of a property can contribute to soil pollution, for example when there are old, defective sewer pipe systems or cesspits on the property or when biocides are … Precautionary values are established on the basis of ecotoxicological effect thresholds and compared with rural background concentrations. They contain a safety margin …

  • Article from 12.05.2014 | Last changed: 28.04.2023

    Brownfield redevelopment and inner urban development

    … obstacles to brownfield redevelopment are the presence of existing constructions, old utility lines, old foundations, and site contamination . The need to demolish existing structures …

  • Article from 14.10.2020 | Last changed: 28.04.2023

    Curbing overdevelopment

    … use in 2011 was mainly driven by demographics. The increase in the number of households slowed due to a reduced influx of immigrants to Germany over the past decade. … regions have experienced declines in both population and the numbers of households, resulting in higher vacancy rates and fewer housing starts. Since 2011, the …

  • Article from 11.03.2016 | Last changed: 11.03.2016

    Discovery, exploration and conservation of Antarctica

    … is the first to see the Antarctic Peninsula, followed by the just 19-year-old American fur trapper Nathaniel Palmer and the voyager Gottlieb von … team reach the Pole on 18 January. The entire expedition dies of starvation and cold on the return journey. 1915 : Ernest Shackleton plans the first trans-Antarctic …

  • Article from 27.01.2016 | Last changed: 29.02.2016

    Geology of the Antarctic

    The Antarctic continent is located on a continental plate called the Antarctic Plate.

    … mass covered by ice. The basement is made up of gneiss rock up to 3.8 billion years old which is covered by younger volcanic rock and sediment. West Antarctica is an … mass covered by ice. The basement is made up of gneiss rock up to 3.8 billion years old which is covered by younger volcanic rock and sediment. West Antarctica is an …

  • Article from 29.02.2016 | Last changed: 09.12.2020

    Underwater noise

    … is increasing in all of the world's oceans; it has doubled and even increased fourfold over the last 50 years in some regions. Anthropogenic underwater noise is caused … can damage the hearing ability of marine animals or cause temporary threshold shifts (TTS) or even permanent threshold shifts (PTS) in hearing, that is, …