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  • Article from 31.03.2025 | Last changed: 10.04.2025

    Use and Impact

    Port view of Bremerhaven with container crane and container ship.

    … to effective marine conservation by making environmentally conscious choices when consuming fish and seafood . The oceans also serve as key transportation routes … at any time. Oil and gas extraction from the seabed remains a common practice - one that carries significant ecological risks. For example, exploration activities …

  • Article from 11.03.2025 | Last changed: 31.07.2025

    Protecting the seas and oceans: how can it be done?

    On the picure you see the sunset about the sea

    … UBA The German Environment Agency is committed to protecting the oceans, which are more important than ever. They buffer climate change, host biodiversity, provide … cycle and distribute heat via their currents. From a distance, the seas appear endless and untouched. But on a closer view, it becomes clear that plants and animals and their habitats, especially near the coast, are …

  • Article from 16.04.2012 | Last changed: 10.09.2013

    Water body structure

    … of quality of the water body structure (see table below) developed by the Working Group of the Federal States on Water Issues (LAWA) describes a change in … exceptional cases. It is possible to assessing usually sections of 1 kilometer or more. Unlike the overview method, the “on-site method” of small to medium-sized …

  • Article from 11.05.2012 | Last changed: 14.11.2025

    Circulatory diseases

    more than 1,700 predominantly older people from Berlin. The evaluation showed that people living in noisy areas were more frequently receiving treatment for high … noise exposure during daytime and medical treatment for the above complaints was less marked. The frequency of medical treatment for psychological disorders, … of the research showed that the human organism reacts more sensitively to noise when at rest during the night than during the diurnal active phase. It also became …

  • Article from 26.11.2025 | Last changed: 28.11.2025

    Download

    Download This page provides the download of current program versions as well as … for the accuracy or suitability for a particular purpose of the data and programs that can be downloaded from this site. The full risk of use lies with the user. If … installation instructions English (TXT / 26.11.2025) Program packages Attention: When downloading the three large ZIP files with the plume library from the UBA …

  • Article from 12.12.2025 | Last changed: 12.12.2025

    Overview

    … They can be used both for practical applications and for checking other programs that are considered to be capable of implementing the calculation methods in … turbulence, parallel to similar works by Wilson and Legg & Raupach; in doing so, I delivered a promise made to Hanna during a conference in the preceding … in Amsterdam. The preparations for the TA Luft 1983 had not yet finished, nevertheless the participants already discussed how the TA Luft should develop on an …

  • Article from 06.07.2020 | Last changed: 04.10.2023

    Risk management in river basins

    … the EU followed in 1982 with adoption of the so-called Seveso Directive to ensure that effective safety measures are established at high-risk facilities.  Based on … international river basins. Danger prevention management Safety recommendations  Working through the International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine (ICPR) … of the Oder at the beginning of the millennium, and to the UNECE. In the meantime more than 30 international harmonised guides have been developed for various …

  • Article from 21.03.2022 | Last changed: 28.04.2023

    Transport law

    Wortwolke

    … in Räumen schwacher Nachfrage “examines examples of road traffic and concludes that lasting changes to legislation are  required to achieve this aim. The authors … German Environment Agency commissioned a legal opinion to Prof. Dr. Eckhard Pache [ Minderung der Umweltbelastungen im Schienenverkehr durch emissionsabhängige … to aviation, they do not enjoy the same tax breaks. As a result, the railways bear the brunt of an uneven distribution of costs. One way to minimise this …

  • Article from 01.10.2012 | Last changed: 14.11.2025

    Traffic noise

    … Traffic noise Traffic noise is a serious problem in Germany, where surveys show that traffic-noise pollution has declined only marginally over the past decade. A … If these targets are unrealistic, particularly in city centers, they are nonetheless useful as limit values for purposes such as cost-benefit analyses and … types of environmental degradation, noise effects vary considerably depending on when they occur over the course of a given day. People divide their days into a work

  • Article from 04.12.2024 | Last changed: 05.12.2024

    Economic aspects of transport

    Stau auf einer Autobahn

    … than its benefit. In order to contain the economy’s transport volume to a level that makes both macroeconomic sense and is environmentally sound, external costs … limited to raising the price of transport. It must also take into account measures that avoid transport activity, which promote a switch to more environmentally friendly modes of transport, which use existing capacities …

  • Article from 13.06.2022 | Last changed: 22.07.2025

    Sustainable mobility

    LKW und Pkw auf der Autobahn

    … does not necessarily have to hamper personal mobility. By the same token, more freight transport does add up to the better and more efficient supply of goods. … the capacity utilisation of vehicles. The aim is therefore more mobility with less traffic! Sustainable transport calls for a policy mix because individual … incentives aimed at changing behaviour, and settlement and transport planning that focuses on traffic avoidance and environmentally friendly modes of transport. …

  • Article from 09.10.2015 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Soil protection at international level

    desiccated soil

    … processes such as erosion, salinisation and contamination. It is estimated that as much as 20-25% of global soil resources is degraded, i.e. has a reduced … The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has stated that 1.5 billion people, i.e. more than a fifth of the global population, are already directly affected by soil …