Flooding alleviated by targeted tree planting and river restoration
Friday, March 11, 2016 - 02:55
in Earth & Climate
A study by an international team of scientists, led by the Universities of Birmingham and Southampton, has shown that strategic planting of trees on floodplains could reduce the height of flooding in towns downstream by up to 20 per cent, according to research published in the journal Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.