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30 Jan 2025

Introducing SpongeScapes: Enhancing Europe's Climate Resilience with Sponge Measures

SpongeScapes is a Horizon Europe project uniting 14 case studies across Europe to advance the understanding and implementation of sponge measures—nature-based solutions that restore landscapes' natural capacity to absorb, temporarily store, and...
30 Jan 2025

Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure (FDRI) update

The Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure (FDRI) is now establishing a long term monitoring programme in the UK. FDRI is an innovative long-term programme which, for the first time in the UK, will monitor the whole hydrological system, to...
30 Jan 2025

Scottish National Flood Resilience Strategy published

A National Flood Resilience Strategy for Scotland has been published by the Scottish Government. The strategy sets out a vision for a flood resilient Scotland through to 2045 and beyond. It is structured around the themes of People, Places and...
01 Jul 2024

Assessing the socio-economic impacts of soil degradation on Scotland’s water environment

A report has just been published by scientists at the James Hutton Institute, SRUC and University of Aberdeen that assesses the socio-economic impacts of soil degradation on Scotland’s water environment. The work was commissioned by Scotland's...
01 Jul 2024

New data-based analysis tool for functioning of natural flood management measures

Scientists at the University of Aberdeen and James Hutton Institute have just published a paper on a new approach for characterising temporary storage area (TSA) functioning. The open access paper published in the Journal of Hydrology looks at...
01 Jul 2024

Scottish Flood resilience strategy: consultation

The Scottish Government is seeking views on Scotland's first Flood Resilience Strategy. The strategy will focus what needs to be done to make communities more flood resilient over the coming decades. The consultation paper seeks views on the...
28 Jun 2024

Engineering with Nature: An Atlas, volume 3 now published

The Engineering with Nature initiative (led by US Army Corps of Engineers) has now published "Engineering with Nature: An Atlas, volume 3". The atlas contains lots of global case studies that are using NbS inspired approaches. 58 projects (including...
28 Jun 2024

Outputs from the Flood Resilient Scotland 2024 Conference

Sniffer hosted Scotland's Flood Resilience Conference at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh on 8 - 9 February 2024. This was a hybrid event and almost 700 people attended across the two days. Sessions at the event included community resilience, coastal...
11 Jun 2024

Your views on Riparian woodland evidence gaps

We are reaching out to you with an exciting opportunity to contribute to research on River woodland evidence gaps. This survey should take approximately 20 minutes to complete (ideally on a laptop or desktop). The aim of this survey is to...
25 Jan 2024

Riparian woodland creation: A guide for practitioners

The Tweed Forum have published a new guide to riverside tree planting. The guide called "Riparian woodland creation – a guide for practitioners" is available via the link at the bottom of this page. The Practitioners’ Guide to Riparian Woodland...
25 Jan 2024

Engineering with Nature: Podcast season 7

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering with Nature initiative has released a new season of podcasts (season 7). Podcasts cover topics such as regenerative land management, policy issues and knowledge exchange. You can also access the previous...