#Floodplain

Dr James D. Witts

~230 million years ago the UK was a harsh environment in the middle of the supercontinent of Pangea. Storms over mountains to the west caused flash floods, eroding sediment onto

A thread I meant to start yesterday!Lammas Day, 1st August, traditionally marked 'Ings breaking' or 'breaking the fog', when floodplain meadows (Ings) were thrown open to common-right grazing. Before Lammas

Demands for ever more aggressive dredging of river channels and for higher and higher concrete flood walls show just how poor our understanding is in Britain of how rivers actually

Hey you’all: I’m headed on a ditch walk through Boulder to learn about #water #drought and the miracle of water delivery in the #West. Follow me as we walk through

Brampton's recorder

1/ As we approach the PIC for Riverwalk in #Brampton, on October 1st, remember, the biggest barriers to redevelopment downtown aren't financial cost, or technical engineering, it is small lot

The San Pedro's riverbed was a wildlife superhighway. Every trip down I'd see tracks across the border. No, not from migrants or smugglers, but from foxes, bobcats, mountain lions &

💧RiverAmbassador MelG

1/ Water take from the Macquarie... supplementary access and floodplain harvesting. https://www.theland.com.au/story/6727573/macquarie-irrigators-boost-with-rain-inflows/?cs=4951 via @thelandnews 2/ the Macquarie was cut off at Warren last Sept for t

hey folks, it's time to talk about chemical fires. specifically about the arkema fire, which took place in 2017 in crosby tx, just outside houston, as a result of hurricane

I would like to introduce you to the world's most newly described species of miniaturised frog, Stumpffia froschaueri, endemic to the Sahamalaza region of Northwest Madagascarhttps://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/47619 This small an

Slattery & Johnson

On ABC Broken Hill this morning, @melindapaveyMP said at least 650GL is on its way to the Menindee Lakes. Enough to trigger the 480-640 rule, meaning the management of the

Bryan Ferry is my Spirit Animal

A long thread on flooding in Fishlake:Fishlake up in Yorkshire is in the news now because it is under water. (The name, of course, says it all but the Wisdom

Evan Johnson-Ransom

87. Saving one of the best troodontids for last for #TheSummerOfTheropods, is #Stenonychosaurus ("narrow claw lizard”) a troodontid from the Late Cretaceous Period of Alberta, Canada. Art by @troodonvet. Previously,

Prof Susan Oosthuizen

DrSueOosthuizen

THREAD. The East Anglian #fen basin was one of the richest and most populous areas of #medieval England... this thread explores how local communities managed the #landscape that produced the

Build Soil: cultivar castaños comestibles.

River Restoration is essential #ClimateAction . Never gets proper attention. It's a driver of soil loss & ecosystem change that will be our undoing if we don't address it in

This thread shows the latest situation of Indian and Chinese forces in Ladakh since tensions errupted in the region last week over road construction about 5km from the LAC, using

Right, here goes... Swindale Beck was straightened at least 200 years ago. The people living in the valley at the time needed to reduce flooding in their meadows to ensure