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  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 20.09.2024

    Cluster Transport, transport infrastructure

    The picture shows a flooded dip in a road. There is a roadblock in the foreground indicating that the road is closed to traffic. A sign reading ‘Hochwasser’ (floodwater) is fixed to the roadblock. There are flooded meadows visible on both sides of the road.

    … of goods transported by Germany’s inland shipping are conveyed via the Rhine. Floodwater events affect inland shipping whenever they exceed the highest navigation … for more than five days were the exception. In contrast, restrictions owing to low water levels can persist for considerably longer periods (cf. Indicator VE-I-2 ). …

  • Cover from 02.10.2024

    Introduction - 2023 Monitoring Report

    The cover shows a magnifying lens pointing at artwork containing arrows in various colours. In the centre of the lens is the title of the current Report.

    … the measured data contained in the 2023 Monitoring Report. The temperatures of air, water and soil have continued to rise, thus also increasing the impacts on humans, … and droughts also led to functional restrictions with regard to infrastructures and waterways. For example, there were technical obstructions in goods and passenger …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 12.12.2024

    LW-I-1: Agrophenological phase shifts

    The picture shows apple blossoms covered in frost.

    … hand, greater accumulations of warmth in the presence of adequate availability of water further the growth of certain types of crop. On the other, excessively high … targeted anti-frost irrigation, in other words, spraying plants with very small water droplets. While the water freezes, crystallisation heat is released, which …

  • Press release 23/2012 from 02.07.2012 | Last changed: 22.07.2013

    It’s okay to pay to protect the marine environment

    … still too much algae growth in the Baltic Se. This can be quite detrimental to its water quality, which is all the more reason why the people in the Baltic Sea … which these substances cause nevertheless has a detrimental effect its water quality. Eutrophication makes water become murky and results in high algae …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 20.09.2024

    Cluster Biological diversity

    In the foreground the picture shows a banded demoiselle which has landed on the blossom of a yellow waterbuttercup. The background of this picture is blurred.

    … beings. Animals, plants, fungi and micro-organisms contribute to providing clean water, fresh air, a pleasant climate and fertile soils for the cultivation of crops … measures, or the restoration of natural flood plains for protection from floodwater, as well as the renaturation of moorlands in order to strengthen their …

  • Press release 25/2020 from 22.06.2020 | Last changed: 06.02.2024

    ZERO WASTE

    Raul Walch. Laborant’s Pause, 2018. Inkjet-Print. Copyright: Raul Walch

    … the artist duo Irwan Ahmett & Tita Salina transferred a small fish from a polluted water in Jakarta in a motorcycle procession with yellow flags symbolizing mourning … also questions the wasteful use of resources in the art world and the carbon footprint of this exhibition. The Zero Waste exhibition avoids material-intensive …

  • Press release 26/2020 from 01.07.2020 | Last changed: 03.07.2020

    Plant-based meat substitute with best environmental performance

    A burger with plant based meat substitute.

    … produce up to less than a tenth of the greenhouse gases and use many times less water and land. Insect-based meat substitutes do not come off quite as well. In … more plant calories are needed, as well as significantly more arable land, water and energy, before the calories are consumed by humans. Example: the …

  • KomPass: Area of action adaptation from 06.01.2023 | Last changed: 07.01.2026

    Adaptation: Field of Action Biological Diversity

    colourful flowering summer meadow

    … of natural flood plains Restoration of natural flood plains benefits floodwater protection and biodiversity conservation. Source: Fernbach Antal / … or restoration of these habitats. This includes renaturation measures on running waters and floodplains (e. g. land-use change, dyke relocation, shoreline …

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    GE-I-7: Health hazards from vibrios – case study

    The illustration GE-I-7 ‘Health hazards from vibrios – case study’ contains a biaxial chart. The bars in the chart indicate, for the years of 2008 to 2021, the weighted proportions of sample results in all water samplings for Vibrio vulnificus in per cent. Taken into account were samplings at several stations along the coastline of the Baltic Sea taken between July and September.

    … GE-I-7: Health hazards from vibrios – case study Source: LAGuS (water quality measurements) Download image (147.77 kB) The following contents …