With a loud smack of her tail, a North American beaver signaled her return to the wild Thursday along with her four kits rescued by the Cowlitz Indian Tribe earlier t ...

North American beaver in the Northwest Territories. (Anglia Ruskin University via SWNS) By Stephen Beech Beavers have left a tell-tale trail as they move into the Arctic, reveals new research.

Depending on who’s talking, beavers can be any of the following: unsung ecological heroes, nuisance rodents bent on wreaking havoc, cute creatures brimming with charisma — or a hunting target. Now ...

A study has provided new evidence of beavers’ expansion into the Canadian Arctic by dating the changes they have made to the tundra landscape as they spread northwards. Published in the journal ...

California is using beavers to restore wildfire-damaged forests by creating wetlands that resist drought and slow fires.

Beavers are expanding their range into Canada’s western Arctic, and a recent study has reconstructed when these ecosystem engineers first became active in the area — sometime around 2008. Historically ...