From source to sea: How natural flood management can combat the climate and nature crisis

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Natural flood management projects are exactly the kind of bold, collaborative and innovative thinking the nature and climate crisis requires, writes Dr Rob Stoneman from The Wildlife Trusts

Long before "build back beaver" was a glimmer in Boris Johnson's eye, I was involved in the first urban effort to manage surface water running through a housing estate in Sheffield, keeping it above, and...

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