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  • Article from 11.08.2022 | Last changed: 13.10.2025

    Fachbibliothek Umwelt (Environmental Library)

    View into the environmental library in Dessau

    … the German-speaking world. Source: Umweltbundesamt The Environmental Library is a resource for the UBA’s research, as well as for many external users. It has grown to become the largest environmental library in the …

  • Article from 14.01.2025 | Last changed: 24.10.2025

    Maps and CCE Data

    Weltkartenausschnit Fokus EU, Rezeptoren mit unterschiedlichen Farbgebungen

    … Maps and CCE Data Receptor Map Source: CCE Maps are created/updated using CL data from the NFC. last update on 14.01.2025 The mandate of the CCE is to … for emission abatement. Furthermore, exceedances of CL for eutrophication are also used as an indicator in other frameworks of nature protection such as the EU …

  • Article from 10.08.2020 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Remediation technology

    … are disproportionate for a given site, protective and mitigating measures can be used instead. Natural pollutant mitigation mechanisms should also be factored into … measures into account, as well as the socioeconomic dimensions of site cleanup and land recycling. It is often the case that a combination of decontamination and … which, because it was optimized for special projects, offered far more cost efficient alternatives for specific cleanup measures. Moreover, the demand for …

  • Article from 27.08.2024 | Last changed: 28.11.2024

    National collaboration

    Titelbild Publication

    … models, maps) to the CCE, provision of written reports on the methods and models used to obtain national maps,  organisation of training measures for national … of the methods applied in order to perform multinational mapping exercises (e.g. using GIS) and model comparisons,  updating the mapping manual as appropriate, in …

  • Article from 10.03.2014 | Last changed: 15.12.2025

    Contaminated sites

    Graphic realization of a multifarious land use

    … sites are abandoned industrial sites or abandoned waste disposal sites that have caused harmful changes to the soil or other hazards to individuals or the general … rates of the materials in question can be kept at a high level so that natural resources are conserved and no new harmful soil changes occur as a result. This … a high level of protection. Nevertheless, the inappropriate use and management of land in some places by industry, commerce, agriculture and private individuals is …

  • Article from 26.11.2018 | Last changed: 13.02.2025

    Leaching tests for emissions from building products

    … based on new European leaching tests, which are now available for producers and users. last update on 26.11.2018 Information on leaching behaviour to become … mortars. In this leaching test pollutants are dissolved of a construction product using water as solvent (eluent) under specified conditions. The eluted substances in … risk of substance leaching, HSR University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil, Switzerland, developed the simulation model COMLEAM (COnstruction Material LEAching Model). …

  • Article from 24.04.2014 | Last changed: 24.04.2014

    Emissions behaviour of wood and wood-based materials

    hand holding a flake board

    … chambers. Two different trunk heights, two strand drying temperatures (coarse chips used in the production of OSBs), and three press temperatures were used to produce … unsaturated higher aldehydes acids in particular. Emissions can thus be reduced by using rather simple means in production. The good technical properties of the …

  • Article from 10.12.2025 | Last changed: 10.12.2025

    Sustainable resource use in the leisure sector

    Top view of a soccer field

    Sustainable resource use in the leisure sector Top view of a soccer field Source: Anton Mazaev / … materials and greenhouse gases and develops a framework for action for a resource-efficient and climate-friendly leisure sector. last update on 10.12.2025 Whether it … sector and natural resources (2.39 MB) Related contents Ressourcennutzung in Deutschland Digitalisierung und natürliche Ressourcen RESCUE – Resource-Efficient Pathways …

  • Article from 24.09.2015 | Last changed: 24.09.2015

    Plant protection products

    Bauer brings out pesticides in his field

    … Some nine kilogrammes of plant protection products are spread one hectare of farmland every year Source: Penny Williams / Fotolia.com Chemicals enter the environment every day, but there is hardly a substance group that is used with more purpose and in such large amounts than plant protection products. …

  • Article from 06.11.2015 | Last changed: 06.11.2015

    Chemical research at UBA

    A woman in the apron of the chemistry works in the laboratory. You are filled with liquid glass vessels

    … Safety Division tests chemicals and compounds in its own laboratories, making use of the results to carry out evaluations. About 25 per cent of its staff work in … behaviour of chemicals in the environment. The laboratory test results are also used for the environmental review that is enshrined in chemicals laws. These duties …

  • Article from 09.04.2020 | Last changed: 27.06.2024

    Risks and opportunities in responding to the coronavirus crisis

    … – a multidimensional crisis in which reciprocal dynamics of varying magnitude can cause considerable damage. Three forces must be tamed, which is possible, but in no … several times. The geosystems could reach a tipping point: the ice sheet of Greenland, the melting of which implies a seven-metre rise in sea levels, would be … of public services will also become clearer due to the crisis – such as access to efficiently functioning healthcare and educational systems. The coronavirus crisis …

  • Article from 16.04.2020 | Last changed: 27.06.2024

    COVID-19: let’s make sure we don’t learn the wrong lesson

    … us that the new global ecology that we have created through our ravaging of Earth’s resources holds great risks for .. last update on 16.04.2020 COVID-19: let’s make … It’s telling us that national solutions alone are quite inadequate, that viruses and climate do not carry passports, that we must resolve the underlying causes …