First, they were pelts, then pests. But now they are emerging as something else: climate heroes. With its chisel-like teeth, a beaver can fell a tree in a matter of hours. The animals eat the bark and ...

Beavers spend weeks hauling logs and packing mud to build one of nature's most impressive structures, yet they never sleep ...

A study, led by the University of Southampton (UK), has revealed that brown trout can successfully navigate beaver dams—obstacles which were previously thought to pose a significant barrier to their ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... High in the mountains west of Fort Collins, teams of scientists and engineers are pretending to be beavers. They may not be swimming or chewing trees, but ...

A few hundred feet from a McDonalds’ and a strip mall, sandwiched between busy and polluted roads, is a lush and thriving urban wetland, built by very unusual residents.

Officials in the Brdy region of the Czech Republic were at an impasse. Despite securing more than one million dollars’ worth of funding for a new dam to address water issues, the project had stalled ...

A tree impacted by beaver activity stands in a wetland at South Fork Halls Creek adjacent to a wooded property where Jim Hoffman, CEO of Hoffman Construction, is building a series of artificial beaver ...