Climate change, with its often week-long periods of drought and heat, is affecting spruce trees all over Bavaria. The situation is currently most dramatic in the Franconian Forest. In the north-eastern tip of the Free State, foresters and forest owners are fighting a desperate battle against the bark beetle. The pest is one of the beneficiaries of climate change and has destroyed thousands of hectares of spruce forest in the rather quiet low mountain range within a few years. Numerous...
The municipality of Ramsau wants to develop an alpine pasture area on the Watzmann with water, sewage, electricity and data cables. But the exact course of the route is disputed, the Bund Naturschutz has announced a lawsuit. Everything flows, Heraclitus is said to have once said, but he has concealed one thing: Before water, sewage, electricity and data, for example, can flow properly, funding often has to flow first. At the Blaueishütte on the Hochkalter in Berchtesgadener Land, for example,...
from Caspar Busse, Wolfgang Krach and Lisa Nienhaus, DavosThis is his 27th time here. Bill Browder, "Putin's number one enemy for a long time," as he says himself, is surrounded by the smell of grilling in an adjoining room at the "Ochsen," a steakhouse in Davos. He looks contentedly at the group he has gathered around him for the "Annual Davos Dinner". It is Monday evening, the first day of the World Economic Forum 2023. The Lithuanian foreign minister is...
That harms him liver medication – they are broken down in the liver, but their breakdown capacity is limited. An overdose can cause irreparable damage to the liver. environmental toxins – such as solvents, halogenated hydrocarbons, plasticizers, many organic and inorganic chemicals put a strain on the liver. alcohol – is a cell toxin that is also broken down in the liver. Excessive alcohol consumption leads to cirrhosis of the liver over time. So much alcohol is allowed Rule of...
Status: 01/15/2023 09:55 a.m German winter sports resorts have to face reality: the snow is falling more and more often. Tourism in the mountains should still continue - but in green. By Sebastian Neighbor, BR The German Weather Service is talking about a "low pressure highway" in these January days. Changeable weather with a lot of humidity in the atmosphere. Actually exactly what lift operators and winter sports fans want right now. If only there wasn't this problem with the...
The end of the world in 2012 did not happen. However, hundreds of people had gathered in Bugarach, a small town in Aude (11) in the south-west of France, set up as a refuge by certain apocalyptic theories. The reason ? The peak (or Pech) of Bugarach would be a mystical point that would escape Armageddon.At the time, two young journalists, Romain Lescurieux (former journalist at 20 minutes) and Antonin Vabre, intrigued by the proportion that the event was taking...
Podcast "important today" Mountain rescuer Klaus Burger was buried alive by an avalanche: "You don't even wish your worst mortal enemy" Klaus Burger, mountain and air rescuer from the Berchtesgadener Land was himself buried by an avalanche © private "Close to heaven, far from the idiots, that's how I like it" - maybe that's the answer to the question of why so many like to go to the mountains, mountain rescuer Klaus Burger quotes from a summit book. For him,...
Podcast "important today" Mountain rescuer Klaus Burger was buried alive: "You don't even wish your worst mortal enemy" Klaus Burger, mountain and air rescuer from the Berchtesgadener Land © private "Close to heaven, far from the idiots, that's how I like it" - maybe that's the answer to the question of why so many like to go to the mountains, mountain rescuer Klaus Burger quotes from a summit book. For him, the mountains are the elixir of life, but also...
criticism "Giant thing" film: mountain rescue service "put in the wrong light" Bernd Hellersdorf (Christoph Bach) bids farewell to the injured Josef Häberle (Roland Silbernagl) in a scene from the film "Riesending - Every hour counts". photo © Nikola Predovic/Senator Film Production/BR/ARD/Degeto/dpa A researcher has an accident in Germany's deepest cave. Hundreds of helpers can free him. The story is now being filmed in the two-part TV series "Riesending" - but it paints a bad picture of the mountain rescue...
In the dispute over the destruction of the Rappenalp valley, the alpine farmers and the Oberallgäu district administrator Indra Baier-Müller (free voters) are now making serious accusations. In an interview with the BR, the chairman of the Alpine cooperative and hotelier in Oberstdorf, Hannes Thaumiller, accused Baier-Müller of lying: "The fact that the district administrator is now twisting the facts in public and getting caught up in her lies, what damage this causes to the entire alpine economy , our...
