Tag: Moors
Wet moors help protect the climate. But the agricultural lobby is torpedoing the protection of nature
by Guillaume Amouret, Swantje Furtak and Kilian Schroeder April 17, 2024, 8:54 p.m 9 mins Saving destroyed peatlands and other ecosystems should become part of the EU’s “Green Deal”. But…
Environmental protection: How Baltic moors are being destroyed for German vegetables
Peat is hardly mined in Germany anymore, but is imported from the Baltics because lettuce and ornamental plants grow best on it. Could there be another way? A journey on…
More moors and forests: negotiators agree on EU nature conservation law
As of: November 10, 2023 2:04 a.m There was a heated debate in Brussels over the EU law on nature conservation – now negotiators from the member states and parliament…
Kramertunnel: Free State must remediate environmental damage to moors – Bavaria
The Free State of Bavaria must repair environmental damage to moors that have dried up over large areas due to the construction of the Kramer Tunnel near Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The Federal…
11KM podcast: Germany’s moors – climate killer or beacon of hope?
podcast Status: 07/12/2023 06:54 a.m For climate protection, moors are to be wetted again, agriculture is to give way. Just how remains unclear. A 11KM podcast episode on the dilemma…
The protection of the moors in Bavaria is hardly progressing – Bavaria
Out on the Dachssee, Bavaria is how Markus Söder prefers to draw his country. Wind turbines are turning behind him, the lake and the moorland are peaceful in front of…
Climate protection: Cabinet approves billion-euro program for moors and forests
If Steffi Lemke wants to see the future, she laces up her hiking boots. Then she drives to where the water reclaims its place because it is no longer being…
Climate protection: Wet moors bind millions of tons of greenhouse gases
There are more than a million hectares of moors in Germany. But most are constantly dehydrated. Stopping the pumps would massively advance nature and climate protection. Franziska Tanneberger is researching…
Creepy for the climate: why the disappearance of the moors is so explosive
Terrible for the climate Why the disappearance of the moors is so explosive Moors are often hardly recognizable as such in this country, but part of agricultural land. The “Mooratlas…
Protection of moors: environmentalists call for an international agreement
Status: 01/10/2023 2:34 p.m 90 percent of the moors in Germany have been drained, many had to give way to agriculture. Environmental organizations find it fatal for climate protection and…