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In 1979, John Denver bought 957 Colorado acres for Windstar near Old Snowmass; a 1996 conservation easement kept 927 of those acres locked as wildlife habitat even …

A rock star's conservation gamble outlasted him by decades—and now faces its first real test under new owners.
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Despite being only about half Earth’s diameter, Mars has nearly as much total surface area as all of Earth’s continents combined—the difference is that oceans cover 71% ...

Mars has about 97% as much surface area as Earth’s dry land, a geometrical coincidence created by the oceans covering most of ...
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Florida rancher Keith Ludwig spent years saving to buy 660 acres along Brushy Creek in Hardee County, then locked a conservation easement so the working ranch stays …

A Florida rancher protected his hard-won land from development by locking it into conservation, proving that ownership and ...
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Atlantic waves carved a concert hall into 60-million-year-old volcanic rock off Scotland — when Mendelssohn heard the strange acoustics inside Fingal’s Cave, he …

When a nauseated composer stumbled into a Scottish sea cave, he heard something no one had quite captured in music before—and ...
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Florida is fighting its Burmese python invasion by putting GPS collars on opossums — when a python swallows one, the tracker keeps transmitting from inside the snake a…

A self-sacrificing mammal becomes bait in an unconventional war against an invasive predator that has conquered the Florida ...