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The gardening season kicks off
Whether it is greenery from the home garden or fruit and vegetable scraps from the kitchen, some waste is just too valuable to become residual waste. The compost heap at home can turn kitchen and garden waste into valuable humus. The German Environment Agency (UBA) has updated its manual on composting with hints and advice on how to make good compost.
Federal Government initiates carbon offsetting scheme for all official travel
UBA cancels credits for greenhouse gas emissions
Cities quieter thanks to 30km/h speed limit
International Noise Awareness Day 2016: Three out of four in Germany feel disturbed by noise. A 30 km/h speed limit is not only quieter but also safer.
Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan fails its own environmental review
The draft Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan (FTIP) fails to meet eleven of the twelve targets identified in its own environmental report.
UBA measures new record highs for carbon dioxide
A sad record: concentrations of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide at both of the UBA´s measuring stations on the Zugspitze and the Schauinsland exceeded an annual average level of more than 400 parts per million for the first time.
EU Commission declines to authorise antifouling ingredient
A victory for environmental protection: Cybutryn, better known by its trade name Irgarol®, may no longer be used as the active substance in antifouling products on boat hulls after 27 January 2017.
Significantly lower levels of mercury and lead, more plasticisers
Which pollutants are people exposed to nowadays and which have diminished as a result of environmental legislation? These are some of the questions which experts will be discussing today at the international conference "Human Biomonitoring - Science and Policy for a healthy future" in Berlin.
Germany is able to achieve climate-neutral building stock by 2050
The UBA recommends a swift move to renovate Germany's building stock comprehensively. A new UBA study shows how it can be done.
Cornerstone for an exemplary ecological building
The cornerstone ceremony for the addition to the German Environment Agency in Dessau-Roßlau took place on Friday, 8 April 2016.
Emissions trading: Industrial emissions again practically unchanged in 2015
Energy utilities mitigate by 1.7 percent
Gravel-bed streams - our water body type of the year 2016
The German Environment Agency (UBA) has chosen the water body type of the year 2016 just in time for World Water Day on 22 March: large gravel-bed streams.
First round table on marine litter
The Federal Government and the Länder want to strengthen their joint measures to combat marine litter and are coordinating their future action at a round table.