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Here's how beavers improve water quality
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Cologny: World Economic Forum has issued the following press release: Worsening water quality as a result of climate change threatens ecosystems, but beavers are helping to reduce the damage, according to a new US study.During periods of drought less water flows through rivers and streams, so concen
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