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Scientists Reintroduced Beavers in Utah Desert to Save Rivers — and They Did an Incredible Job

On a typical night in Utah’s desert, a beaver plunges into the river, slapping its tail on the water. With its chisel-shaped teeth, it strips the wood and starts gnawing and nibbling it. The rodent ...
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Beavers Were Brought to the Desert to Save a Dying River. Six Years Later, Here Are the Results.

In eastern Utah, the sun beats down on red cliffs and dry soil. Water should have disappeared here long ago. But deep in a canyon, the Price River still runs, and green plants line its edges. This ...
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Arabian Peninsula’s desert was once home to a vast lake and rivers

During the late stages of the last ice age, the Arabian Desert wasn't always the dry expanse you know today. In fact, recent geological and climate research has revealed a very different past—one ...
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Just add sewage: How a bone-dry river bed became a thriving haven for desert wildlife

Arizona's Santa Cruz River is currently imperiled. Stretching for 180 miles through major cities like Tucson and into the Sonoran desert, the Santa Cruz River is in danger of drying up because of ...
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Arabian Peninsula’s desert was once home to a vast lake and rivers

Their work focuses on the Rub’ al Khali Desert, or the Empty Quarter, one of the largest continuous sand deserts in the world. Covering nearly 650,000 square kilometers, the Empty Quarter today is ...