nature-based solutions

Streets in London’s West End flood every year due to heavy rain: local council planned to spend millions to fix the problem, but Beavers solved it for free

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Streets in London's West End flood every year due to heavy rain: local council planned to spend millions to fix the problem, but Beavers solved it for free

For Londoners living near Greenford tube station, tiptoeing through floodwaters to get to work is part of daily life. After a heavy rain, ticket halls were flooded, neighborhoods were flooded, and sandbags were often deployed to make way.The local council in the west London borough of Ealing is faced with a daunting reality every year … Read more

The Netherlands kept losing its battle against rising floods that swamped towns and farmland, then it spent billions to give rivers more space, and now the experiment is protecting millions of lives | World News

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The Netherlands kept losing its battle against rising floods that swamped towns and farmland, then it spent billions to give rivers more space, and now the experiment is protecting millions of lives | World News

The Netherlands has spent much of its history trying to control rivers with taller dykes and stronger flood barriers. But repeated floods in the 1990s showed that simply building bigger walls was no longer enough. Rising river levels, increased rainfall and the growing impacts of climate change continue to threaten towns, farmland and millions of … Read more