London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers.
After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.
Authorities had planned major man-made flood infrastructure, but the beavers effectively created their own system — while also boosting biodiversity and restoring the ecosystem around them.
“The dynamic of friendship is almost always underestimated as a constant force in human life: a diminishing circle of friends is the first terrible diagnostic of a life in deep trouble: of overwork, of too much emphasis on a professional identity, of forgetting who will be there when our armored personalities run into the inevitable natural disasters and vulnerabilities found in even the most average existence.
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But no matter the medicinal virtues of being a true friend or sustaining a long close relationship with another, the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self; the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.”
— David Whyte
Fish & shellfish caught in British waters will now be processed and sold into the EU without veterinary checks, eliminating huge red tape, checks, costs and delays created by Brexit.
Given that 70% of seafood caught in UK is sold in EU, this is a big win.
Ignore fibbing Farage!
We are sadly now loosing 80 pubs a month, according to figures just in.
They are being converted into offices or flats.
Ripping the heart out of our communities.
With £1 out of every £3 now going directly to the taxman.
We need urgent change to save what's left.
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Although it won't be confirmed until after the event has reached Earth, there are signs tonight's Severe Geomagnetic Storm will be the strongest since 2005.
This will mean it's likely all of the UK (cloud permitting) should be able to see the the Aurora tonight if you look north
We are sleepwalking into a catastrophic global conflict.
Our political class shows no interest in de-escalation, diplomacy or restraint — and it is always other people's children who pay the price.
In a world of endless war, we need voices for lasting peace.