… to damage in terms of windblown, wind-broken or pest-infested timber, damage caused by forest fires has so far played a secondary role in most regions of Germany. … water abstraction points were driven forward, and improvements were made regarding public information. While the latter is of importance in respect of negligent …

… unfavourable valley location exposed to extended heavy rain events causing flash floods and floodwater. Numerous bridges and roads were damaged or … in Landshut, Darmstadt, Krefeld and Magdeburg owing to violent tempests, either because they were inundated by floodwater or swamped by mudslides so that they had to be … damage to roads and infrastructures will increase. So far, there are no data in the public domain which might enable a reliable and cause-related illustration of the …

… European Environment Agency (EEA) 136 . The evaluation of cooling degree days was used as a basis for estimating the temporal development of cooling requirements or …

… network) Spring crops starting earlier year by year Hardly any other form of land use is as tied to natural seasonal rhythms as agricultural land use. People who work … a specific variety into account. This circumstance is the reason why the effects of using different varieties are also reflected in the flowering periods observed …

… recent years even a slight decline. This development was due to a complexity of causes that will have to be examined more closely. Apart from factors already … risks, because any calculation will have to be inclusive of the materials to be used and the storage capacities required, based on the yields expected. Looking at …

… influences in German landscapes characterised almost contiguously by anthropogenic use. Apart from the adverse effects of progressive intensification of land use, climate change in many cases causes additional stresses. Given these …

… toxin-forming cyanobacteria can occur in increased concentrations in summer, causing health problems to bathers (cf. Indicator GE-I-6 ). There are more than 12,000 … for which the temperature value is set at ‘0’. The values of these deviations are used to calculate the mean value across all the lakes. 2014 is the earliest year for …

… Cluster Woodland and forestry Woodland and forestry Source: matousekfoto / stock.adobe.com 2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for … the intensive Environment Monitoring in Forestry (LEVEL II) have so far not been used in terms of indicators for the DAS woodland and forestry action field. For the …

… – case study As sea levels rise, the loads affecting coastlines increase. This causes material displacements. Source: fotografci / stock.adobe.com 2023 Monitoring … of roughly three kilometres. Data on the location of the upper cliff edge are used to determine the average annual retreat of the coastline. The survey data were …

… hailstorm, tempest, heavy rain, flooding, frost and damage from outwintering can cause yield losses in agriculture. Typically, the insurance policy covers only damage from hailstones. Increases in claims expenditure are essentially caused by increases in the amounts insured. Claims ratio figures make it possible to …

… more subtle changes will have a particularly large impact on our country. Greenhouse gases that by now are already in the atmosphere will continue to have an impact … level. Central components of our infrastructure such as roads, sewage systems, public buildings and hospitals are often owned by municipalities. Thus, they have …