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Beavers Are Finally the Good Guy, and Scientists Want to Know More

This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For the first time in four centuries, it’s good to be a beaver. Long persecuted for their pelts and reviled as pests, the dam-building rodents are today hailed by scientists as ecological saviors. Their ponds and wetlands store water in the […]

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