{"id":252688,"date":"2025-11-09T07:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T07:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/252688\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T07:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T07:55:09","slug":"climate-change-threatening-norfolk-and-suffolk-broads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/252688\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change threatening Norfolk and Suffolk Broads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Parts of the landscape, which Mr Packman said was already sinking, may again start to resemble the vast estuary it was 2,000 years ago, before rivers were rerouted, drainage channels dug and windmills built to pump out the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over the next 100 years, sea levels were being predicted to rise by up to a metre, which would put much of the low-lying wetlands underwater.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We cannot stop these changes happening. It is about how you adapt to it and manage the rate of change and mitigate the impact on the Broads system,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Climate change is already biting hard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will have to give up areas of land so that when there are big flooding events, water has somewhere to go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There will be some things that will be similar to the Roman times.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parts of the landscape, which Mr Packman said was already sinking, may again start to resemble the vast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-252688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}