The heroes of Weiden


The evaluation of historical aerial photographs from the Second World War is an important tool for the pre-discovery of explosive ordnance, as the aerial photographs are regarded as objective evidence of the events. The physical reality at a known location was documented at a known time and allows the analyser, who is separated by time and space, to identify structures such as explosive bomb craters or fighting positions [...].
NRW overturns thousand metre rule for wind turbines


The minimum distance of wind turbines from residential areas in Germany is not regulated uniformly by the federal government but by the individual federal states, meaning that there are a large number of different regulations. Around half of the federal state regulations are based on the blanket thousand metre rule, whereby wind turbines may not be closer than 1000 metres to a (general/pure) residential area. Since [...]