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...Dams are one solution. The country’s large dams can currently store about 4 cubic kilometres, de Waal says....
...Its farm exports, however, face a threat from a new EU law adopted this year banning the import of many farm products from recently deforested land....
...Half the farms went bankrupt,” says Laura Schoeman, the owner of Berluda ostrich farm....
...“Sometimes, I do jobs on neighbours’ farms or I work in construction.” Some have already abandoned agriculture....
...The latter was not a given for the Ealing beavers in their previous Scottish home....
...The beavers are back....
...Though Italy built hundreds of large dams in the years after the second world war, poor construction and inadequate maintenance mean many are no longer fully operational....
...“The situation clearly needs continued and accurate monitoring, but the first health problems will surely arise as a result of flooding of homes and farms from the destroyed dam,” Regan added....
...He finds a “beaver boom” in Britain, where programmes to reintroduce the dam-building creatures have shown they are surprisingly good at water storage and flood reduction....
...Before the welcome '22-'23 winter deluge, the worst drought in some 1,200 years saw levels at the river's main reservoirs around the Hoover Dam plummet to record lows....
...“That blew the dam away. It left everyone producing what they liked and let the herd get too big,” Tuohy said....
...On the banks you’ll find peanut, aubergine and pumpkin farms – beyond them, in the forests, monkeys, bears and iguana hide....
...Built using locally sourced materials — timber from an old barn, unfired clay from the site’s soil, linseed oil and rye flower — the new house is born from its environment, a place where beavers and water...
...A big concrete dam has just been built there to halt the river if floods cause it to rise. Locals who know the valley think the dam will be far too low to stop a major flood....
...Here’s our military briefing on who has most to gain from the dam breach....
...Among Peña’s tasks will be a reform of the pension system and the renegotiation of a treaty with Brazil over electricity production from the giant Itaipu hydroelectric dam which is shared between the two...
...He aspires to have Dalmatian pelicans and beavers (authorities have so far refused permission for the latter)....
...But if you want a tiny flash of cheer — and a sign of Ukrainian resilience — look at this tale of how wind farms are helping Ukraine withstand Russian missile attacks....
...The upstream state is building the huge Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), to generate hydropower....
...Low grey farm buildings huddled into the hillscape. Close by was the island of Fara, uninhabited since the 1960s....
...So what are the revenue streams of the farm right now? So the wider farm we're still pretty heavily exposed to farming. That's probably about 50 per cent of our income....
...Some anglers resent beaver dams. And a fellow FT columnist fears wolves may eat his family pet. Bison are Europe’s largest land mammal and are classified as dangerous animals under UK law....
...Below the window a galah waddled happily across the lawn and the vineyard formed a large natural amphitheatre with handpicked vines running down the hill to two dams....
...And I'm talking about the barrage, the Dam of Inga, Inga Dam, which is important within the assets of the DRC. Nothing happened about the dam. Are the projects going to start during your presidency?...
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