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  • Article from 22.02.2024 | Last changed: 19.05.2025

    German Environmental Survey, GerES VI (2023-2024)

    a colorful picture with many different faces

    … German Environmental Survey, GerES VI (2023-2024) Adults are back in focus in the … for the entire population GerES VI provides up-to-date, population-representative data on the burden of the adult population in Germany with environmental pollutants. …

  • Article from 03.04.2020 | Last changed: 03.04.2020

    Metals

    … at low concentrations. last update on 03.04.2020 The assessment of metals is based on dissolved concentrations (lead, cadmium, nickel, mercury, selenium, silver, … copper, zinc) and in biota (mercury). The assessment of metals is based on environmental quality standards (chemical status) which are valid throughout the EU … 3 µg/l), (silver(dissolved: 0.02 µg/l) and thallium(dissolved: 0.2 µg/l). Whereas data for the assessment of suspended solids/sediment and dissolved concentrations is …

  • Article from 15.05.2020 | Last changed: 15.05.2020

    Headaches

    A child that holds its head.

    … measured in Europe actually cause headaches cannot be answered from existing environmental epidemiological studies. The results of these studies were found to be … Why are there not more environmental epidemiological studies on headaches? Researchers agree that there are major research gaps regarding the causes of …

  • Article from 05.03.2018 | Last changed: 26.03.2018

    Nutrients in watercourses

    … periods (1986-1995, 1996-2005 and 2006-2015) at LAWA monitoring sites for which data is available for at least five years are averaged out, so that changes in … phosphorus, ammonia nitrogen and nitrate nitrogen Source: German Environment Agency based on data supplied by LAWA Downloads: (277.64 kB) Evaluation at LAWA monitoring …

  • Article from 30.06.2025 | Last changed: 21.07.2025

    Stabilizing our Landscape Water Balance

    Poor harvests due to heat and drought

    … content Links River restoration National Water Strategy Financial support of nature-based solutions with EFRE Vormeier et al. (2024): Renaturierte Fließgewässer/ …

  • Article from 25.02.2014 | Last changed: 14.11.2025

    Learning about and experiencing soil

    Anthill in forest

    … from the Erich-Kästner Grundschule primary school in Berlin and by the Berlin based artist Simon Schrieber, is for children ages four to seven; it is also a … from the Erich-Kästner Grundschule primary school in Berlin and by the Berlin based artist Simon Schrieber, is for children ages four to seven; it is also a …

  • Article from 19.02.2014 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Soil functions

    A mole on the surface.

    … / Umweltbundesamt Half of German soils are used for agricultural purposes. Data for 2011 Source: FG II 2.7 / Umweltbundesamt Download image (513.15 kB) Barley … process that began after the Ice Age around 10,000 years ago and that reflects the environmental and usage conditions during this period. The structure of soil strata …

  • Article from 15.04.2025 | Last changed: 25.04.2025

    The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement

    Lettering 1,5 degrees Celsius

    … than a warming of 2°C or more. The Paris Agreement does not explicitly define the baseline, i.e. the exact reference period for pre-industrial temperature data. However, the IPCC uses a baseline from 1850 to 1900, which is the earliest … demanded by particularly vulnerable countries. In 2015, as a result of scientific research and intensive diplomatic negotiations at COP21 in Paris, Parties agreed to …

  • Article from 18.02.2014 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Soil science

    A floor pit with differently coloured layers.

    … strong soil types differ greatly in terms of the mechanisms with which they control environmental processes. We human beings are the main beneficiaries of these … that is practiced by agricultural engineers, geographers, geologists, and lately environmental scientists who specialize in ecology. This field needs to be … strong soil types differ greatly in terms of the mechanisms with which they control environmental processes. We human beings are the main beneficiaries of these …

  • Article from 10.08.2020 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    FAQs

    … FAQs last update on 10.08.2020 Tags data groundwater contamination residual waste soil pollution … FAQs …

  • Article from 10.08.2020 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Large scale ecological projects

    Major projects

    … exempted investors from legal responsibility for the costs attributable to environmental damage that occurred prior to 1 July 1990, pursuant to the … and regional states agreed to undertake 21 large scale ecological projects, based on economic and environmental policy. These projects involved major industrial …

  • Article from 04.07.2013 | Last changed: 15.12.2025

    Site remediation

    … with the goal of identifying possible contaminated sites. Such assessments are based on factors such as the manner in which hazardous substances were handled at … each individual setting are taken into account. Detailed investigations provide a database for the subsequent hazard assessment, and mainly allow for determination of …