Environment

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Environmental experts say the damage caused by the recent flooding could have been prevented if the correct water management techniques had been used.

From the storm surge in December through the wettest January on record, Channel 4 News tracks the stormiest winter in memory which has left two people dead and thousands flooded and without power.

Up to 100,000 people are evacuated and three major airports are closed, after one of Indonesia’s most powerful volcanoes erupts on the island of Java.

Channel 4 News has travelled the width of the country to report on the UK floods and storms. Watch the video reports and see how the story of the terrible weather was told from your area.

The swollen river has brought chaos to communities along the Thames – and as the Channel 4 News team has been finding out, there is anger at a perceived lack of support from the authorities.

The West Midlands, the worst hit area in the 2007 floods, has been hit by fresh misery in cities like Worcester – where bridges have been closed and large areas are submerged.

More than 128,000 acres in the Somerset Plains have been flooded and vast areas have been submerged for more than eight weeks, as the Channel 4 News team has found in places like Bridgewater.

Channel 4 News reporters have ventured to the very end of Cornwall to report on the impact of the storms – from physically damage to causing economic hardship for the fishing community.

Wales has borne the brunt of ferocious winds and tempestuous seas, and, as Channel 4 News Reporter Ciaran Jenkins has been finding out the hard way, hurricane force winds.

“What lies beneath” is quickly becoming “what lies above”, as the UK floods bring new problems – including groundwater rising through the earth, bringing with it sewage.