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Steroid hormones are among the most widespread aquatic micropollutants. They are harmful to human health, and they cause ecological imbalances in aquatic environments. At the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), researchers have investigated how steroid hormones are degraded in an electrochemical membrane reactor with carbon nanotube membranes.

Jacek Halicki, CC BY-SA 4.0 (wikimedia commons_2)

Experts from Helmholtz research centres (KIT, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ) answer questions about the flood situation in Austria, the Czech Republic and Germany in September 2024 

Christian Damm, KIT

Peatlands bind carbon and can help to slow down climate change. However, as a result of periods of drought, they are drying out more and more, decomposing and releasing climate-damaging CO2 into the atmosphere instead. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are now testing in a research project at the Rastatter Bruch nature and landscape conservation area whether they can prevent the drying out with a test damming of a drainage ditch.

Mühr/Ehret, KIT

The task force of the Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology (CEDIM) at KIT has compiled an initial report on the flood situation in southern Germany in June 2024.