Natural infrastructure can be restored in ways that reduce both flood risk and the effects of drought.
- Professor of River Science and Climate Resilience, University of Salford
Switzerland’s glaciers just lost 6% of their ice in a single year.
Flooding isn’t always destructive – it can be part of our toolkit for restoring ecosystems.
Efforts to engineer Britain’s rivers over the past 75 years have only made flooding worse.
There’s a short window of opportunity to gather the data needed to fully assess the impact of changes to rivers and floodplains on flooding.
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