Saturday, 11 May 2019

Climate crisis: flooding threat ‘may force UK towns to be abandoned’

Climate crisis: flooding threat ‘may force UK towns to be abandoned’

Entire communities might need to be moved away from coasts and rivers as the UK takes urgent action to prepare for an average global temperature rise of 4C, the Environment Agency warned. The agency said on Thursday that difficult decisions would have to be taken in the coming years to make sure the UK was resilient amid flooding that would not be held back by higher land defences.

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