Carlisle floods: bring back the trees, and the beavers!

The Ecologist
Dec 7, 2015, 9:10 am94 pts
The key to reducing the risk of more floods like those in Carlisle is to realise that conventional 'flood defence' can never provide security against the ever more extreme weather events that global warming will bring. We must embrace natural solutions to holding back flood waters: More trees; and bring back…

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Carlisle floods: bring back the trees, and the beavers!

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