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Flooding mitigation
Coverage of Flooding mitigation in the Nexus archive.
- 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.