Holding back the waters: Can bamboo walls help Uganda hold back worsening floods?
HEDWIG ARINAITWE, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how farmers are increasingly using bamboo as a flood defence in Uganda…
Greece’s fire-ravaged island now racing to build flood defences
Limni, GreeceReuters In a scorched landscape on the Greek island of Evia, crews of workers chop burnt pine trees, all that’s left from devastating summer wildfires, to set up wooden flood barriers. Walking on a thick carpet of ash and with the smell of smoke still lingering, they are racing against time to bolster defences […]