Skip to main content Skip to main menu Skip to footer

Search

Help

4933 - 4944 of 5072
  • Article from 04.01.2023 | Last changed: 22.08.2025

    Floods - how they form and how we influence them

    Flooded elbe river near Dessau

    Floods - how they form and how we influence them Flooded elbe river near Dessau Source: Jörg Rechenberg / … riverbanks is determined by the rivers´ morphology and amount of water. Rivers have more or less developed floodplains. The amount of water retention volume in the …

  • Article from 30.11.2014 | Last changed: 10.11.2017

    Chemical Quality Standards and Assessment

    Chemical Quality Standards and Assessment In Germany there are EU-wide environmental quality standards andand agriculture are discharged into waters. As analytical techniques become ever more advanced, an increasing number of substances is found in even smaller …

  • Article from 19.09.2018 | Last changed: 18.11.2019

    Ozone and open air sport events

    People are jogging

    Ozone and open air sport events Ground-level ozone can have a negative impact on … open-air sport events when ozone levels are high. last update on 19.09.2018 Ozone and open air sport events Due to weather conditions open air sport events normally … following target: the maximum 8-hour value of a day may not exceed 120 µg/m 3 on more than 25 days per calendar year (averaged over 3 years). An “information …

  • Article from 24.06.2015 | Last changed: 26.01.2018

    Checklists for drawing up safety reports

    … Based on the UNECE Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents and EU Directive 96/82/EC (SEVESO II), this unified guideline system provides … Facilities Checklists for the chemical industry Checklists for refineries More Checklists Downloads Checklists Safety Reports Checklists System for Safety …

  • Article from 24.06.2015 | Last changed: 26.01.2018

    Checklists for preventing water pollution from installations

    … last update on 24.06.2015 Based on recommendations by international river basin and water body commissions, a checklist concept was developed as a tool to … Facilities Checklists for the chemical industry Checklists for refineries More Checklists Downloads Checklists Water Safety Checklists for surveying and

  • Article from 22.08.2019 | Last changed: 24.09.2019

    Holi – Festival of colours and dust

    Menschen streuen verschiedne Farben aus

    Holi – Festival of colours and dust During a holi-festival the participants throw … since 2012 and are particular popular among teenagers and young adults. In 2015 more than 100 events were held in Germany and in 2014 more than 250,000 people had …

  • Article from 11.04.2025 | Last changed: 11.04.2025

    Monitoring and assessment

    Monitoring and assessment The federal and state governments regularly collect data on the North Sea and Baltic Sea using … National Energy and Climate Plans: Evidence of Policy Impacts and Options for more Transparency Review of internationally proposed critical levels for ammonia The …

  • Article from 02.02.2022 | Last changed: 25.07.2025

    Maritime shipping

    Sailing boat and container ship in the harbor of Hamburg

    … Maritime shipping Sailing boat and container ship in the harbor of Hamburg Source: FG II 2.3 / UBA More and larger ships are sailing the world's oceans. Due to their high tonnages, …

  • Article from 31.03.2025 | Last changed: 10.04.2025

    Use and Impact

    Port view of Bremerhaven with container crane and container ship.

    Use and Impact Port view of Bremerhaven with container crane and container ship. Source: FG II 2.3 / UBA The seas and oceans, including the North … frameworks necessary to safeguard marine ecosystems for the future. … Use and Impact

  • 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

    Protecting the seas and oceans: how can it be done? View of the wide open 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 food and raw materials, serve as living and recreational spaces, and are transport …

  • Article from 16.04.2012 | Last changed: 10.09.2013

    Water body structure

    … of deviation from its potential natural state (reference condition). Maps of water landscapes served to define reference conditions. On small to medium-sized … were used to draw up the map of water body structure. The “overview method” uses and assesses parameters calculated on the basis of aerial pictures, existing maps … 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 20.07.2020 | Last changed: 20.07.2020

    Rivers

    … EC Water Framework Directive show it needs forceful measures in the whole catchment and at the rivers to meet the good status. last update on 20.07.2020 Hydrography (facts and figures) Rivers are subdivided into six river systems as well as the coastal areas of the North and Baltic Seas. The rivers are the  Rhine, Ems, Weser and Elbe, which flow into the …