They help conserve water and improve biodiversity. But a preliminary study by CU Boulder researchers suggests that beaver activities in the Western U.S. may exacerbate the spread of mercury-containing ...

March 26, 2024 The water swelling out of a beaver pond is just the beginning. Beaver ponds slow rivers and streams, storing an average of three times the water that’s visible by creating what ...

But with streams and rivers heating up or evaporating and wildfires blazing across the state, California is willing to reconsider the beaver’s role in the water cycle. The Department of Fish and ...

Gradually, signs began to appear that the Spanish beaver (Castor fibre) was progressively inching closer to Portugal.

A simmering water war could be heading toward a boil in Utah’s West Desert, where an Iron County water district is looking to extract billions of gallons of groundwater in a neighboring rural ...