Dhe group of so-called per- and polyfluorinated chemicals, or PFAS for short, are better known as “forever chemicals”. Once they get into the environment, they stay there for a long time, sometimes forever. The EU considers these chemicals to be dangerous and wants to ban them. A corresponding regulation should be available by the end … Read more
Heating with gas A reduced VAT of seven percent applies to gas until the end of March 2024. (Photo: IMAGO/Wolfgang Maria Weber) Düsseldorf Anyone who heats with oil or gas will have to reckon with greater price increases in the future than in the past. The federal government has drawn up a new plan for … Read more
Circle Lip. The downy birch eke out a life in its fame in the shadow of the silver birch. This should be familiar to most people with its white bark. Downy birch fans can be all the happier that this has been voted Tree of the Year 2023. And even better: the newly minted celebrity … Read more
If there are disparities according to the departments, the whole of the French territory is now invaded by the Asian hornet. “It is no longer just a national problem, but a European problem”, emphasizes Éric Darrouzet, lecturer at the University of Tours and specialist in the species, according to whom “all of Western Europe is … Read more
Frankfurt/Berlin (dpa) – The biodiversity in European rivers has recovered thanks to decisive measures in many places – but this upswing has long stagnated. The original richness in species is far from being reached again, reports scientists from Frankfurt and Berlin, among others, in the journal “Nature”. They followed the development using the example of … Read more
Americans are the biggest pizza eaters in the world: they devour 3 billion pizzas a year, a good part of them in New York. But the city’s old wood-fired ovens give off fine, harmful particles. They will therefore soon have to be equipped with a very expensive filtration system or go electric. The measure, very … Read more
On June 29, according to the relevant deployment of the central theme education, Tang Dengjie, secretary of the party group of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, minister, and head of the leading group of the theme education of the Ministry, “in-depth study and implementation of Xi Jinping’s socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics in the new … Read more
As an entrepreneur, Oliver Winzenried is also socially active. The co-founder and CEO of Wibu-Systems AG in Karlsruhe supports numerous social projects at home and abroad. In an interview with podcast host Sebastian Gerstl, he says: “It’s not enough just to pay taxes.” Because: “I think we’re doing very well here in Germany. Even if … Read more
The houses in rue Parmentier, in Montoir-de-Bretagne, near Saint-Nazaire, have one thing in common. They all have a containment room. “It’s the bathroom, they put seals on me to make a waterproof room”testifies a resident in the report of TF1 above. Although this arrangement is not mandatory, it is nevertheless recommended. For good reason: the … Read more
Freiburg / Strasbourg (dpa / lsw) – According to scientists, the capercaillie is as good as extinct in the Vosges. Only five to six animals of this endangered species were counted last year in the mountainous region of eastern France, not far from the border with Germany. This emerges from a report by a scientific … Read more