Leave It To Beavers: The London Underground Experiment

London has just rehired an employee it fired four hundred years ago. No severance. No apology. Just an awkward, "Come back. We clearly can't do your job without you." Her name's Willow, and she's a beaver. When five Eurasian beavers were reintroduced to Paradise Fields beside Greenford Tube station in West London as part of the Ealing Beaver Project, they quietly solved a flooding problem that engineers, councils and commuters had lived with for decades. But the real story sits beneath the he...