A family of beavers made global headlines earlier this year when they built a dam exactly where authorities had been planning one in Czechia, saving taxpayers around CZK 30 million (€1.2 million).

Beavers are working wonders across Europe. Is the UK finally realising their potential? View on euronews ...

The changes beavers make can help land hold onto water and release it slowly, which eases flooding and stalls drought. Compare this with human design innovations like tarmac, which radiates heat and ...

The study highlights the “positive cost-benefit ratios” of investing in natural schemes that soak up water and slow its flow, including ponds, dams and hedge and tree planting as well as rain gardens ...

Beavers build dams that slow the flow of water (Andrew Matthews/PA) The study also looked at the River Otter, in Devon, where wild beavers have created wetlands and dams that have reduced flood ...

No larger than 4 feet tall, beavers are nature’s star engineers—restoring landscapes and balancing ecosystems at will. Here are three incredible success stories where they accomplished what humans ...

Adding to this, Obermajor said: “The places where they build dams are always chosen just right – better than when we design it on paper.” The beaver family then moved on to a gulley ...

Beavers will soon be released into waterways in England under ... seeking to restore England's depleted countryside—and a ...

Beavers saved the government of the Czech Republic over $1 million on an ill-fated infrastructure project by doing what they do best — building a dam. Officials in the Brdy region of the ...

“When beavers engineer a stream, they build dams which creates barriers to flow resulting in the accumulation of water as a series of ponds – some surprisingly large. We found that these ponds ...