Until two years ago, West London's Greenford Tube station used to
flood whenever it rained heavily. The train tracks are aboveground,
but the ticket office would often get inundated. Sandbags still line
the corridor.
But in October 2023, a new family moved in nearby, determined to halt
the water. The family members built their house from scratch with
local wood and kept odd hours, sleeping all day and working only at
dawn and dusk. They even put their young children to work.
The new neighbors were beavers.
The beavers are part of an unlikely effort to bring back a vanished
species and help Britain adapt to a very modern problem: climate
change.
Britain is famous for drizzle, but climate change is making rainfall
heavier and more erratic. Places that didn't used to flood are now
waterlogged. So scientists have enlisted some of the animal kingdom's
best flood engineers -- beavers -- to help.
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/21/nx-s1-5738979/beavers-britain-climate-change-flooding
| Date | Sujet | # | Auteur | |
| 22 May03:09 |  Britain tries a new solution | 1 | JAB |
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