Stop me if you’ve heard this one before – government officials spend years planning a project, bogged down by permits, ...

A train derailment in rural Maine that spilled hundreds of gallons of fuel and hospitalized three workers was attributable to a beaver dam, state officials said.

Ecosystem engineers are plants or animals that create, modify or maintain habitats. As Joshua Larsen, an associate professor at the University of Birmingham, explains, beavers are a perfect example of ...

The beavers have built at least four dams and they could not have chosen their location better. They built them on a bypass ...

Beavers have saved Czech taxpayers a cool $1 million by flooding a protected former army training site where a long-stalled ...

If Trump goes through with planned tariffs on imports from those countries, building costs here could rapidly increase, she said. That doesn’t even include the electronic aspects of the buildings, ...

Some groups, such as the Yurok Tribe in California, have even started building beaver-dam-analogues in places where it is currently illegal to introduce beavers. Not only does this provide beaver ...

A pair from Scotland were released as part of a project run by Shropshire Wildlife Trust and Shrewsbury Town Council Beavers have been reintroduced to a town's nature reserve after 400 years of ...

Beavers build dams for protection. The water cover they create is an effective defense against predators for a semiaquatic rodent. This is all about just having a protected area to move around.

Have you spotted a beaver dam around Squamish? At first, one might think, “Oh no, is that going to be a problem?” But actually, it’s pretty exciting. While beavers sometimes get a bad ...