Imagine a creature so powerful, yet so unassuming, that its daily routines can transform barren landscapes into thriving, ...

Scott Brook Preserve has adapted trails to navigate around four dams built by these natural engineers. It's also a great spot ...

Beaver ponds are found throughout the Colorado high country. Toss a lightweight fly rod in your vehicle and hit some high ...

The ponds and wetlands created by beaver dams become vibrant centers of life. Frogs croak from the reeds, birds nest in the sheltering branches, and deer drink at the water’s edge.

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.

These days, beaver ponds release 200 times more methane than they did in 1900, when centuries of hunting threatened the animals with extinction. Today, the animals are definitely doing better; ...

If you’re a boreal toad — or a wood duck, or a brook trout, or a moose — you might owe your life to a beaver. (Kudos, also, on learning to read.) Castor canadensis, the North American beaver ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...