BBCNEWS BBC News at Six June 4, 2024 17:28:00
The physical conditions back, the whole kind of food chain seems to reassert itself. it's like a living thing again back in the landscape. whereas the straightened river before was just a kind of sad canal. the river was straightened by farmers to reduce the risk of their surrounding hay meadows being flooded. but that had unintended consequences for nature and for the quality of the water in this landscape. the slower flowing water is now cleaning itself, depositing sediment on its banks, rather than washing it downstream. if a river is straighter, it's basically firing all of the material in...