The Fens

Wednesday, 16 October 2024

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The secret to sustainable farming in the Fens? It’s in the water

The Times/The Sunday Times 15 Oct 2024

From the 1650s, the Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden started draining the Fens, and the black peaty soil that emerged from beneath the waters was a farmer’s dream, comprising 70 per cent organic matter ... The Fens are sinking.

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The Hotel by Daisy Johnson review — imagine The Shining set in the Fens

The Times/The Sunday Times 13 Oct 2024

Imagine King’s hotel, The Overlook, transported from Colorado’s Rocky Mountains to the cursed, watery land of the Fens, a place where the colour of the earth “looks as if darkness itself has slipped ...

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Country diary: A bird of the fens in the heart of London’s urban sprawl. Crazy

AOL 07 Oct 2024

London Wetland Centre – the capital’s branch of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust ... Someone has seen a bittern, and I want a piece of the action ... Not that the sighting’s guaranteed ... A bird of the fens in the heart of London’s urban sprawl.

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Peatland and its benefits are shrinking in the fens

The Times/The Sunday Times 02 Sep 2024

Holme Fen itself had been a raised bog holding wet, spongy peat about 6m deep, but once the fen was drained it shrank and eroded so much that the fen is now.

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In the Fen Country – Ralph Vaughan Williams

Bitchute 27 Apr 2024

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Bronze age objects from ‘Pompeii of the Fens’ to go on display

The Guardian 20 Mar 2024

Must Farm, nicknamed the Pompeii of the Fens, offers “exceptional clarity” because of a combination of ...

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Disaster 4,200 years ago created the Fens we know today

The Times/The Sunday Times 02 Jan 2024

The Fens in East Anglia are a vast expanse of flat farmland as far as the eye can see ... ancient forest of the Fens often turns up when farmers grow potatoes, which are planted deeper than most crops.

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The Fens of eastern England once held vast woodlands, study finds

Science Daily 27 Nov 2023

The Fens of eastern England, a low-lying, extremely flat landscape dominated by ...

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The Fens of eastern England once held vast woodlands (University of Cambridge)

Public Technologies 24 Nov 2023

While these trees are fairly common in Cambridge College gardens and churchyards across southern England, they are absent in the Fens, the low-lying marshy region of eastern England ... the Fen woodlands.

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‘A game-changer’: the 9,000 acre project reclaiming the Fens for nature

TheNewsHOOK 05 Nov 2023

‘A game-changer’. the 9,000 acre project reclaiming the Fens for nature ....

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A disappointing, meaningless September in The Fens

The Eagle-Tribune 31 Aug 2023

FENWAY PARK – The season, really the Red Sox hopes of a fun, September gallop to a “possible” postseason berth, ended here, drably, at Fenway Park on Wednesday afternoon ... The NESN broadcast crew was equally baffled ... The pitching wasn’t good enough.

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Fixing the Fens (University of Cambridge)

Public Technologies 14 Apr 2023

And connections are being built with the many organisations and projects currently at work in the Fens, including the Environment Agency, the National Farmers Union, and the Wildlife Trusts.

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Fixing the fens: Group focuses on protecting the UK's most important ecosystem

Phys Dot Org 14 Apr 2023

"The ancient fen system was like a natural canning process, and that can has been opened because the fens have been drained ... And connections are being built with the many organizations and projects ...

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OPINION: “Defend the Fens” Launches Against Dam Proposals in Colorado’s High Country

Pagosa Daily Post 21 Mar 2023

This week, Save The Colorado launched a “Defend The Fens” effort to counter an increasing number of new dam proposals that would destroy or drown imperiled and irreplaceable fens in Colorado’s Eagle and Summit counties.

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First maps of the fens of eastern England reveal saltwater that could threaten food production

Phys Dot Org 31 Jan 2023

The eastern English Fens collectively produce 11% of the agri-food economy from just 4% of the agricultural land covering the entire country ... areas such as the Fens are at high risk of soil salination.