#flood forest

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Floods threaten more people globally than any other natural hazard. But nature offers a solution to this problem. A region in Germany’s east has been training local forests to absorb more water.

#flooding #riverrestoration #wetlands

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Credits:

Report: Anne-Sophie Brändlin 

Camera: Marco Borowski / Mathias Wolff

Video editor: Neven Hillebrands 

Supervising Editor: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann / Kiyo Dörrer

Fact check: Jennifer Collins

Thumbnail: Em Chabridon

Chapters:

00:00 Intro

00:43 We messed up rivers

02:57 Training forests 

06:04 Revitalizing old water courses 

10:55 What’s the price 

12:26 Transferring knowledge

Read more:

The flood situation in Europe:

https://www.gfz-potsda...

https://environment.ec...

How we have messed up rivers:

https://joint-research...

https://www.umweltbund...

http://lrlr.landscapeo...

https://www.nature.com...

https://agupubs.online...

https://www.science.or...

How river and floodplain restoration reduces flood risk:

https://www.igb-berlin...

https://www.ecrr.org/R...

https://www.umweltbund...

https://www.eea.europa...

https://www.eea.europa...

https://environment.ec...

European networks restoring wetlands

https://restore4life.eu/

https://www.spongeboos...