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When a long-planned infrastructure project in the Czech Republic hit a snag, beavers took the reins. Beavers have no regard for human laws, so even if they’d known that the construction of a dam in ...

Beavers once lived across Britain, shaping rivers, ponds and wetlands for thousands of years. Humans hunted them to ...

A groundbreaking study, led by the University of Southampton (UK), has revealed that brown trout can successfully navigate beaver dams – obstacles which were previously thought to pose a significant ...

In the high country of Colorado, scientists are doing something unusual to manage rivers. Instead of pouring concrete or digging engineered channels, they’re deploying hand-built wooden dams. But ...