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  • KomPass: Area of action climate impact from 15.07.2022 | Last changed: 17.12.2025

    Climate Impacts: Field of Action Soils

    freshly ploughed field

    … basis for the production of healthy food, provide settlement and living space for humans and animals, and are crucial for the water balance and protection of … are open to the wind, dry and very flat are particularly at risk. Through land use humans influence wind erosion hazards. Soil cultivation and the degree of soil cover …

  • Newsletter from 18.12.2024 | Last changed: 18.12.2024

    UMID - No.: 02/2024

    … UMID editorial team The new issue 02/2024 of the journal UMID - Environment and Human Health Information service has been published: Please note that the articles …

  • News from 18.09.2013 | Last changed: 18.09.2013

    Pharmaceutical residues can affect soil organisms

    purification plant

    … alkyl compounds) in waste streams Do new generations of active pharmaceuticals for human use require an adaption of the environmental risk assessment? - Part II: Case …

  • Press release 06/2025 from 11.02.2025 | Last changed: 13.02.2025

    Call for entries for the German Prize for Nature Writing 2025

    in einem dunklen Gehölz fällt Licht auf einen alten abgebrochenen Baum

    … reflections on the relationship between nature and culture and with the history of human appropriation of nature. Both essayistic as well as lyrical and epic writing … speak of 'nature as such', but of nature as perceived, experienced and explored by humans. The call for entries The award supports German-speaking authors or authors …

  • Press release 24/2025 from 16.06.2025 | Last changed: 19.06.2025

    How much life lies within our soil?

    Regenwurm in feuchtem Boden.

    … diversity of species is what defines soil as an essential basis for life—for us humans and for the environment. Healthy and living soils are true all-rounders. They …

  • Press release 22/2024 from 27.05.2024 | Last changed: 29.05.2024

    Kenah Cusanit receives the 2024 German Prize for Nature Writing

    in einem dunklen Gehölz fällt Licht auf einen alten abgebrochenen Baum

    … Alps, a bird of prey circles above the history of the names of wheat varieties, a human heart resembles yeast dough. Kenah Cusanit's essay Senatore Capelli jumps back … speak of ‘nature as such’, but of nature as perceived, experienced and explored by humans. The physical presence, the concrete activity of exploration and the …

  • 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.

    … field Biological diversity is one of the fundamental requirements for the life of human beings. Animals, plants, fungi and micro-organisms contribute to providing … in terms of their populations. Apart from increasing demands on land use by humans, climate change represents a major stress factor owing to changes in …

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

    Adaptation: Field of Action Biological Diversity

    colourful flowering summer meadow

    … this adaptation will be, as it increases the resilience of the ecosystems. Humans can support the potential for independent adaptation (self-regulation) by …

  • Appointment from 16.04.2021

    Directive on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides

    … protection products, biocides can directly be used in nature or indoors to protect humans or materials from harmful organisms. This makes their sustainable use …

  • Appointment from 19.12.2018

    Raw Materials & Environment 2019

    … will be addressed so that the interdependencies between environmental protection, human rights, security of supply, distributional justice, global responsibility can …

  • News from 27.12.2021 | Last changed: 05.01.2022

    Novel materials should be safe and sustainable

    Nano structures

    … Nano structures are more than 1000 times smaller than the diameter of an human hair Source: eugenesergeev / Fotolia.com In a joint recommendation, three … technological history of innovative materials reveals the emergence of dangers to humans and the environment that only became known after intensive use. Today's …

  • Press release 19/2009 from 03.04.2009 | Last changed: 09.07.2013

    Mitigating the consequences of demographic change

    … of real estate. The federal Government objective is to limit land consumption for human settlement and transport to 30 hectares per day by 2020, and to concentrate … ”shrinking regions” be renaturized in short order. Areas formerly dedicated for human settlement could be used for the production of renewable energies such as …