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What can be done with the sewage sludge which is generated during waste water treatment? How can valuable materials be recovered and pollutants prevented from entering the environment? The German Federal Environment Ministry (BMUB) invited a Polish delegation on a study tour to promote exchange between the two countries. The group visited exemplary sewage sludge utilisation plants in Germany.

Pedelecs are all the rage. There are now 1.6 million e-bikes on Germany's roads. A new background paper by UBA discusses the environmental impact of pedelecs. This knowledge is now available to an international audience in an English language translation of the paper.

Wood-fired heating systems emit more particulate matter locally than road traffic

A panel discussion on environmental risks and an effective environmental risk assessment of veterinary medicines will be held in Brussels, Belgium on 04 March 2015.

How much water is used in Germany and for what purposes? What are the pressures on our waters? What is being done about it? Find out the answers to these and many other questions in our two-part Water Resource Management in Germany publication.

This is the conclusion of the European Environment Agency in its annual report on the pressures of the transport sector on the environment.

Production of biomass and its use to generate electricity and heat have increased greatly in Germany in recent years, driven by the Renewable Energy Sources Act. The Agriculture Commission at the UBA (KLU) has formulated recommendations on how its further expansion can be designed in an environmentally and nature-friendly way.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published Part II of the current World Climate Report on 31 March 2014.

Federal Environment Agency gives the all-clear: despite high levels of antibiotics use in industrialised farming, Germany’s groundwater is mostly uncontaminated.

Under the European Chemicals legislation REACH the release of a substance into the environment is estimated on the basis of emission factors.

Greenhouse gas emissions in Germany rose again slightly in 2013, by 1.2 per cent compared to the previous year.