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Leave It To Beavers: The London Underground Flooding Fix

Leave It To Beavers: The London Underground Flooding Fix7 juil.11 min

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 tackled a flooding problem that engineers, councils and commuters had lived with for decades. The story of beavers, flooding and th...