For Canadians, the beaver is more than a buck-toothed rodent — it's a national emblem, etched on nickels and central to the country's origin story. Now, a new study from the U.S. suggests this ...

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 ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. After a decade of work, the Tule River Tribe has released nine beavers into the nation’s reservation in the ...

Kristian Foden-Vencil / OPB Sheep Creek, a few miles west of La Grande, feeds the headwaters of the Grande Ronde River. Over the years, the area — nestled in the Wallowa–Whitman National Forest that ...

When flash floods filled Colorado Springs streets last summer, the water raged down from Black Forest all the way to Dallas May’s ranch north of Lamar. The flood made the lengthy journey in just two ...