A beaver swims in a pond after being released on Oct. 11, 2023, in Greenford, England, as part of the Ealing Beaver Project. The beavers that were released are part of an unlikely effort to bring back a vanished species and help Britain adapt to a very modern problem: climate change.
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Climate change is making rainfall in Britain heavier and more erratic, meaning places that used to be dry are flooding regularly. So communities are reintroducing a creature that was hunted to extinction 400 hundred years ago. Beavers are working as little climate warriors, building their dams and reducing flooding. We meet some.