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Weitsicht für unsere Meere
Die Meere sind die ultimative Senke unserer Gesellschaft. Dass überhöhte Einträge von Nährstoffen aus dem Binnenland sowohl die Ostsee als auch die Nordsee massiv belasten ist allerdings kaum im Bewusstsein der Gesellschaft. Das Projekt möchte auf die Folgen und Ursachen der Eutrophierung hinweisen und die Handlungsmöglichkeiten jedes/r Bürgers/in darstellen. Dabei sollen Gäste an der Küste, a... read more
Mechanical-biological treatment
Mechanical-biological waste treatment facilities are a mainstay of sustainable and environmentally safe waste management in Germany. Mechanical-biological waste treatment – which is by no means a standalone waste disposal process – involves making sorted individual waste available for recycling or disposal. read more
How clean is the air in Germany?
The Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has assessed air quality for the year 2009 based on interim data, and arrived at the following conclusion: at 55 percent of air measuring stations placed in urban areas in the vicinity of traffic, annual mean levels of nitrogen dioxide concentrations (NO2) in 2009 were above the 40 micrograms/cubic metre air (µg/m3) which is set as the cap as of 1.1.2010. read more
New design for DEHSt website
As of today the website of the German Emissions Trading Authority (DEHSt) at the Federal Environment Agency has a new outfit- a modern look, easier to navigate, and more services. Site visitors can now already access their topic of choice from the homepage. Emissions traders gain access to relevant pages via their own special area. Quicklinks, tag clouds and info boxes can customise searches wi... read more
Who’s looking through green-tinted glasses?
How can you direct people’s attention to an urgent environmental problem? Anyone with a creative answer to this can enter the Wir und die Zukunft: der grüne Blick environmental contest. Entries can include videos, photos or even poems. The work should focus attention on one of the urgent environmental problems of our time such as global warming, plastic waste in seas and oceans, or urban road ... read more
World Water Day: Water quality must improve!
A mere ten percent of Germany’s surface waters achieve “good ecological” status. On World Water Day UBA President Jochen Flasbarth said, “Many rivers, lakes and streams have become generally clean. Oxygen deficiency now occurs only rarely. However, there are still too many rivers and streams in Germany that have been narrowed and straightened. As a result, only a few bodies of water achieve p... read more
