"Look at it this way"

  Four new films look at the work of the Environment Agency to develop natural flood management schemes.  📢 Announcing our four NEW animated films developed with @envagency to spread the word about natural flood management (NFM) 🎉 Meet Twiggy from the film 'Wood you believe it' below and watch the rest of the films here 👇 https://t.co/SRl1IBb4kw (1/4) pic.twitter.com/bXqQnMekTi — CumbriaWildlifeTrust (@cumbriawildlife) October 28, 2024 We need to slow the flow. Storms which cause flooding in homes and businesses have increased in Cumbria in the last decade. Peatlands hold large amount of water and during periods of high rainfall they can both hold back water and also slow the flow of the water coming off the hills. Damaged peatlands cannot hold the same amounts of water, and areas that contain drains actually speed up the flow. This means that, during high rainfall events, water isn’t held back and released slowly but flows immediately into rivers, increasing the flooding r

Always nice to hit another small milestone on one of my blogs. This one is about landscapes.

  A StoryMap on forgotten woodlands and the clues they leave in the present day. Coilltean Caillte (Gaelic for 'Forgotten Woodlands') is a partnership project that has mapped over 15,000 Scottish place-names that suggest the presence of woodland. Many of the names appear in areas of ancient woodland, but others lie in open ground. Could these be the locations of long-forgotten woodlands? Forgotten Woodlands: Can linguistic clues enhance our understanding of an area's past and inspire its future potential https://t.co/52PytVsdqS — Benjamin Hennig (@geoviews) October 28, 2024 Read more here.