… Antarctic The eternal ice is fascinating not only to researchers Source: Fritz Hertel/UBA … Roald Amundsen said, “We must not cease to remember with gratitude and admiration the first seafarers who navigated their ships through storms and fog to augment our knowledge of the land of ice in …

… loss An earthworm in its natural habitat. Source: S. Marahrens / Umweltbundesamt The world’s soils are neither barren nor dead, for they constitute the habitats of one trillion times more bacteria than there are …

… The CORINE Land Cover (CLC) program CORINE Land Cover 2006 Source: Umweltbundesamt … Land cover is a key indicator of anthropogenic environmental pollution. The EU’s CORINE Land Cover (CLC, Coordination of Information on the Environment) … Centre (DLR)’s Deutsches Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum, on behalf of the UBA. … The CORINE Land Cover (CLC) program …

… Soil compaction Farm machinery tends to compact the soil. Source: S. Marahrens / Umweltbundesamt Farm vehicles exert pressure on the soil that varies according to equipment weight. If the weight generated … composed of clayey silt and soil residues Old moraine sandy soils and sandy terraced soils   The average field capacity of soils over the course of a given year …

… Recognition of environmental and nature protection associations Logo of the competent authority for environmental and nature conservation associations … to art. 3 Environmental Appeals Act (Umwelt-Rechtsbehelfsgesetz, UmwRG) and thereby acquire special participation and litigation rights. The German Environment Agency (UBA) and the competent authorities at federal state …

… Mining law The extraction of lignite from opencast mines is also subject to mining law Source: … is dependent on a secure supply of raw materials. Manufacturing industry and the energy sector in particular require immense amounts of such materials. It is for … available domestically. last update on 09.03.2021 Development and challenges from the perspective of environmental protection and resource conservation In 1982 the …