'The wildlife that has come is phenomenal': the UK farmers holding off floods the natural way

Planting trees, creating floodplains and rewilding rivers are among the new techniques being used to adapt to a heating climateThe streams, or becks, that run through James Robinson's Lake District farm used to be cleaned out regularly - with vegetation yanked out and riverbeds dredged, or even completely filled in."The becks on our farm have suffered from overmanagement. We've got these elevated becks on some of our farm as well as some that have been cleaned up and cleaned out - it's been a bit rubbish for ecology and for flood management," he says now. Continue reading...