No larger than 4 feet tall, beavers are nature’s star engineers—restoring landscapes and balancing ecosystems at will. Here are three incredible success stories where they accomplished what humans ...

Across the American West, land that once baked into cracked clay and dust is turning green again, not through concrete dams ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Beavers have a reputation for reshaping rivers and wetlands, but new research shows that their dam-building ...

The Swiss canton of Zurich has established a hotline to deal with an unruly neighbor - the beaver. Beloved trees have been gnawed down, gardens destroyed, floods unleashed as the web-footed engineers ...