… In many regions, marketable qualities and stable yields can only be achieved by using additional irrigation of fields in need of water. Two adverse climatic trends … any cultivation areas under high, walkable protective covers, such as greenhouses. With almost 55 %, Lower Saxony is the state with the highest proportion of … areas in Germany. In the district of Uelzen more than 20 % of arable land is used for the cultivation of potatoes. The soils are sandy and therefore have very …

… if possible. The financial resources which would then become available could be used to invest in climate protection and to make mobility viable for the future", … One of the results of environmentally harmful subsidies is the air pollution caused by diesel-run vehicles in inner cities. Diesel vehicles run on fuel which costs …

… amendment of the Atomic Energy Act in 2011 and the Coal Phase-out Act in 2020, the use of nuclear energy for energy generation will end in 2022, and that of hard coal … reduce the water demand of thermal power plants. In addition to the increasing use of water-saving technologies, the technical optimisation of thermal power plants … role in water efficiency. In the past decades, the efficiency of power plants using fossil fuels could be increased considerably. As a result of these …

… 2015  Annual Conference, London, UK, 30 September - 2 October, 2015 Congress on the use and impact of environmental specimen banking 2014 , Pau, France, 06-07 November, … Monit. 8, 795-799. Odsjö, T., 2006. The environmental specimen bank, Swedish Museum of Natural History - A base for contaminant monitoring and environmental … 2015  Annual Conference, London, UK, 30 September - 2 October, 2015 Congress on the use and impact of environmental specimen banking 2014 , Pau, France, 06-07 November, …

… seven priority areas for action – amongst them are: A complete ban on the use of untreated sewage sludge as a fertilizer, the introduction of better waste … or soil are contaminated. The proliferation of antibiotics via slurry and dung used as commercial manure is most problematic, as antibiotic-resistant germs spread …

… network with considerably more collection and return points than now would be useful and for which the take-back obligation would have to be extended to … their advertisement of the return options," said UBA's President Dirk Messner. If used appliances are disposed of improperly - for example in grey or yellow bins - …