Researchers are trying to figure out if beaver ponds can perform the same function as retention ponds, a ubiquitous artificial feature of urban environments. Aired 12/06/2022.

As the sun sets over a forest stream, a beaver family gets to work. For millions of years, these large rodents with bright orange teeth and a flat paddle-shaped tail have been reshaping landscapes by ...

Beavers have an impact on the climate Date: August 29, 2018 Source: University of Helsinki Summary: A rising water level affects the interaction between beaver ponds, water and air, as well as the ...

Beaver engineering dramatically altered a tundra stream on the Seward Peninsula in western Alaska between 2003 and 2016. The enlarged black areas are new beaver ponds, the blue arrow shows flow ...

Blame it on the beavers: The industrious, buck-toothed rodents are inadvertently contributing to climate change. As temperatures warm and boreal beavers migrate north, they're creating ponds ...

As the researchers pumped more data into EEAGER, it got better at distinguishing beaver ponds from impostors. In May 2023, the Google team, along with beaver researchers Fairfax, Joe Wheaton, and ...

The ponds we are talking about are mostly beaver-made. And beavers have a wholly different idea of what's important when they make a pond. For Mother Nature, ponds are for creatures.

But beaver ponds, because they lack oxygen, are a hot spot for bacteria that can generate mercury-containing neurotoxins. Learn more about CU Boulder research at AGU23 “A stream that flows smoothly ...

Beavers stimulate our imagination. At home in both water and on land, it is said that beavers do more to change a landscape than any animal other than man. Beaver pelts attracted some of the earliest ...