Perfect storm on its way?
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23rd August 2020 at 9:56 am #532471
Looks like 2020 has the potential to go out with a bang-
-A hard brexit
-US elections where Trump loses and refuses to vacate the office
-Covid second wave
-Influenza season
And for the UK, the situation compounded by the bunch of clowns and creeps currently in charge of the country.
Gotta be some good news somewhere?!!
Here you go Paul
Notre-Dame’s Bees Keep Buzzing Through Crises
When fire ravaged Paris’s Notre-Dame cathedral last year, many presumed that the three colonies of bees living on its sacristy roof had perished. But against all odds, the bees survived the inferno and continued to thrive through the coronavirus lockdown.“There’s nothing wrong with them at all,” reports beekeeper Sibyle Moulin, who looks after some 30-45,000 insects in the three hives. “The behaviour of the colonies is perfectly normal.”
The beehives are just 30 metres below Notre-Dame’s main roof but were untouched by the flames. “The mystery remains,” says Moulin. “All that smoke, heat, water…” She kept visiting the bees through the coronavirus crisis. As humans stressed over COVID-19, Moulin reported that the bees were “completely unbothered”.
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Beavers return to Britain and could help prevent floods
Hunted to extinction in Britain 400 years ago, the water-loving beaver is being reintroduced in “trial” enclosures across England.A British government study suggests the herbivorous rodent’s habit of building dams in rivers could help prevent flooding by drastically slowing the flow of water as well as purifying water polluted by agricultural fertilizer.
The beavers are being sourced from the wild population in Scotland, where they were reestablished as a native species four years ago.
Ecologist Derek Gow hails beavers as “ecosystem engineers”. He says, “They turn landscapes that are largely dead into environments that wildlife can recolonize.”
“A British government study suggests the herbivorous rodent’s habit of building dams in rivers could help prevent flooding by drastically slowing the flow of water”
How can damning a river or watercourse or stream “help prevent flooding?”
Google for “beaver flooding” to see the damage they can do.
eg – https://parks.state.wa.us/1150/Parks-resolve-flooding-caused-by-beaver-
23rd August 2020 at 10:58 am #532485The problem in the UK with flooding is that very often ditches etc were piped and straightened and were used to move water quickly from one piece of land to another ie the flood plain or another river/sea Many such plains have now been built over or natural sponges such as peat bogs have been dug up to provide peat for gardens Trees have been cut down for roads and building In the old days one would often see meanders in rivers with large willows nearby to suck up excess water Because of bad land management any large amounts of water just takes the easiest path and ends up flooding down stream As I understand it beaver dams slow the pace of water but this means that the water builds up upstream and is stored there in new ponds or in the soil and is released slowly downstream In addition many straight rivers are now being diverted back to their original meandering courses But of course none of this would have been necessary if basic common sense had not been over ruled by money grubbing
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