Curitiba maintains the lowest air pollution rates in Brazil and over 300,000 trees in the city helps reduce natural flooding.
Once inside a City church, I am almost always struck by the amount of natural light flooding through the high windows.
A few of the tracks were taken to museums, but most of them disappeared in natural floodings.
Flood protection has reduced natural flooding by an estimated 50-90% degrading habitat for migratory birds.
Shifting channels and natural flooding facilitates the germination of cottonwood seedlings.
It was created in an abandoned gravel quarry using the natural flooding of springwater after the city caked the bottom with clay.
The building has a white, limestone exterior, open space (the 21m-high glass-covered atrium is lovely) and natural light flooding most rooms.
However, 80% of these forests have been cleared and natural flooding has been reduced by 50-90%.
The dam eliminated the natural flooding, which imperiled many species adapted to the flooding, including both plants and animals.
One is the timing of the water flow, and the other is the minimisation of natural flooding.