Skip to main content Skip to main menu Skip to footer

Search

Help

613 - 624 of 1035
  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.12.2024

    RO-R-6: Land use for settlements in officially designated flood plains

    The picture shows a building pit where the walls of a cellar have already been built. Steel girders are seen supporting wooden beams which extend across the ceiling of the cellar. The bottom of the building pit is filled with brown muddy water reflecting a tree.

    … course of flood events and their damage potential are considerably influenced by human activities, both in the past and nowadays. For example, in former times … course of flood events and their damage potential are considerably influenced by human activities, both in the past and nowadays. For example, in former times …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 30.09.2024

    Cluster Civic protection

    The picture shows two emergency vehicles with blue lights switched on, one of the vehicles is a fire engine and the other one a blue emergency relief (THW) vehicle. Both vehicles are only partly visible.

    … levels as well as private emergency services cooperate closely in order to assist humans effectively in emergencies, to keep losses at a minimum, to remedy damage to the best of their abilities and to put humans on their guard in respect of impending danger situations. One of the …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    LW-R-4: Cultivation of thermophilic crops

    The picture shows the ripe ears of durum wheat plants in sunny weather.

    … fodder and energy generation, grain maize – using only the cob for animal feed or human food production – depends on comparatively high amounts of warmth for the crop … fodder and energy generation, grain maize – using only the cob for animal feed or human food production – depends on comparatively high amounts of warmth for the crop …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 11.12.2024

    WW-I-4: Floodwater

    The picture shows a village – situated on the slope of a hill – inundated by floodwater. Some of the lower buildings and some lower floors of houses have been flooded.

    … awareness among the public of flood events because they have an immediate impact on human activities as they can cause personal injury and material damage. The time … awareness among the public of flood events because they have an immediate impact on human activities as they can cause personal injury and material damage. The time …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 12.12.2024

    FI-I-2: Herring larvae in the Greifswalder Bodden

    The picture shows herring spawn. It is possible to see six transparent eggs adhering to each other, with larvae inside.

    … to deposit their spawn. However, the nutrient inputs into the Baltic Sea, caused by human activity, lead to a reproduction boom in algae unsuitable for oviposition, … to deposit their spawn. However, the nutrient inputs into the Baltic Sea, caused by human activity, lead to a reproduction boom in algae unsuitable for oviposition, …

  • News from 28.04.2025 | Last changed: 10.06.2025

    Risks and benefits of inhibitors in agriculture

    Acker neben Wiese mit Bäumen im Hintergrund

    … several of the active substances pose a risk to both the environment and to human health. For example, some of the substances are potentially toxic to aquatic …

  • Press release 06/2020 from 12.02.2020 | Last changed: 19.02.2020

    Many bisphenol A alternatives may be endocrine disruptive

    Reagenzkolben mit Flüssigkeit

    … of Very High Concern (SVHC) under REACH due to its endocrine disruptive effects on human health, the environment and its reprotoxic effect. The present research … for BPA, but it is also suspected to have endocrine disruptive effects in humans and the environment. There are considerable gaps in the data for an …

  • Press release 31/2023 from 05.09.2023 | Last changed: 24.10.2023

    Water resources must be better protected

    Water splashing on someone's hands

    … mobile Forever chemicals. In order to assess the risk of PMT/vPvM substances for humans and the environment, it is not the locally measured concentrations that are …