Deep in Canada, a beaver-built dam is so massive it’s visible from space, quietly shaping wetlands for decades—discover how ...

A family of beavers are constructing a metropolis above Memorial Park, including an expansive dam that’s creating a pool upstream. Photo by Patrick Bilow/Stowe Reporter This story by Patrick Bilow was ...

Kristian Foden-Vencil / OPB Sheep Creek, a few miles west of La Grande, feeds the headwaters of the Grande Ronde River. Over the years, the area — nestled in the Wallowa–Whitman National Forest that ...

A beaver colony surprised officials in the Czech Republic by building a dam that would have otherwise cost them over a million dollars. Government officials in the Brdy region had reportedly received ...

How do you change dried-up farmland back into the wetlands it used to be? Follow the beavers' lead. The Soda Creek Restoration Project in Colorado's high country hopes to do just that. By creating ...

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 researchers with the U.S. Forest Service and ...

Beavers are again proving themselves to be nature's unsung heroes. If you're enjoying freshwater swimming or fishing in Scotland, you might have the hard-working rodents to thank, according to the ...

Beavers and the dams they build promote sediment deposition and modify channel and floodplain morphology and physical complexity. Beaver activities may result in increased watershed-scale water and ...

A groundbreaking 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 ...

SODA CREEK, Colorado (KCNC) — How do you change dried-up farmland back into the wetlands it used to be? Follow the beavers’ lead. The Soda Creek Restoration Project hopes to do just that. By creating ...