In the high country of Colorado, scientists are doing something unusual to manage rivers. Instead of pouring concrete or digging engineered channels, they’re deploying hand-built wooden dams. But ...

The use of artificial beaver dams to replicate the ecological benefits created by the industrious rodents shows promise for offsetting damage to fish habitat, water quality, and biodiversity arising ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Hit by heatwaves and low rainfall, food producers are finding novel solutions to help crops and cattle survive ...

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 ...