For millennia, people have believed Alaska's Arctic tundra was too harsh for beavers to flourish. However, over the past few decades, parts of the frozen landscape have undergone a remarkable ...

Beaver ponds contain nitrogen, an essential nutrient that can become a pollutant when too much is present. Land managers need to know if beaver ponds are storing or releasing nitrogen, but chemical ...

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 ...

Beavers have recently enjoyed a makeover as ecological heroes. Their dams and ponds, once destroyed as a pesky source of flooding, are now hailed as water-cleansing oases that do everything from ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Federal authorities have begun draining a controversial beaver pond on the Gettysburg battlefield, despite describing questions ...

Beaver ponds are found throughout the Colorado High Country. Toss a lightweight fly rod in your vehicle and hit some High Country roads. Any short hike along a mountain stream will lead to a beaver ...

Rising temperatures have spurred an influx of beavers to Alaska and northern Canada ‘on a huge scale’ The stream through western Alaska never looked like this before. In aerial photography from the ...

Each year, by the time we get to mid-November and shortly before the freeze-up, I like to walk out to some of the nearby beaver ponds. Here I can check the status of the local residents and see how ...