Author: Jess Neumann, Associate Professor of Hydrology, University of Reading

Flooding across the Somerset Levels in January 2026. Vortex525/Shutterstock Standing on the hills looking out across flat green fields, linked by a network of hedgerows, copses and small settlements, the Somerset Levels looks like quintessential English countryside. But this region’s rivers, drains, waterways and wetlands are integral to the levels’ history – an inhospitable, and […]