The Conversation warns Fens landscape may not survive climate change
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Article synthesises the research, stating that under a 4°C warming scenario by 2100 annual flood damages could rise from £16 million to £250 million and parts of the region could become uninhabitable without major infrastructure investment.
“This is an existential risk for the low-lying Fens, meaning that more radical adaptation approaches will be needed in the long term.”
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# food # Britain # UK The Fens face several climate threats that reinforce one another. Rising sea levels, heavier downpours, hotter summers, longer droughts and biodiversity loss are all expected to intensify over the coming decades. These are all serious challenges, and in the Fens they will play out within one tightly interconnected system…
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