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SCIENCEMay 21 · 09:00 UTCNPR NEWSLauren Frayer

As floods get worse, Britain tries a new solution: beavers

Britain is reintroducing beavers, extinct for approximately 400 years, to help mitigate flooding in communities. The reintroduction leverages beavers' natural dam-building abilities as a climate adaptation strategy. This represents a novel ecological solution to increasingly severe flooding events.

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