Ground force
The transport industry is backing a project to investigate the biological and environmental impactsof climate change on the embankments that support our roads and rail lines.
The more apocalyptic possible effects of climate change caused by global warming have become well known to all of us, thanks to years of headlines about melting ice caps and rising seas.
Whether global warming really does spell the end of the world as we know it is still the subject of fierce debate. What is less in dispute is that the environment is changing, and that engineers and scientists need to plan accordingly.
To this end, a group of researchers is working on mitigating one of the less apparent consequences of climate change. This is its possible effect on the nation’s transport infrastructure and, more specifically, the ground on which it is built.
The UK Climate Impacts Programme was set up in April 1997 by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Based at the University of Oxford, UKCIP helps organisations prepare for the impact of climate change.
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