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A Boston textile heir spent 43 years and nearly his entire family fortune buying up land on a Maine island to give away — the parcels became Acadia, the first national park east of the Mississippi, and he died with almost nothing but the view
2+ hour, 48+ min ago (362+ words) George Bucknam Dorr belonged to exactly the class of American that does not, as a rule, die broke. Published September 13, 2026 · How we edit Where they summered, from his fifteenth year, was Mount Desert Island, on the coast of Maine. The…...
In 1919, one pair of mute swans was carried from an Iowa estate into northern Michigan's Charlevoix County; by 2013 the state population had reached an estimated 17,520 birds. Michigan's own written target is to bring the population below 2,000 by 2030.
13+ hour, 56+ min ago (623+ words) A picturesque introduction of two swans to Michigan a century ago has become an ecological crisis the state now races to reverse. Published September 12, 2026 · How we edit Two birds. That is where Michigan’s mute swan story begins. In 1919, a single…...
From 1995 to 1997, 41 wolves from Alberta, British Columbia and north-west Montana entered Yellowstone; by January 2026 the park held at least 84 in eight packs, down from 108 at end-2024
20+ hour, 29+ min ago (412+ words) Forty-one wolves rode into Yellowstone National Park in crates over three winters. By Lab Report · Edited by Justin Brown Published September 12, 2026 · How we edit What makes the arithmetic legible at all is the starting point. Before 1995, Yellowstone had no wolf…...
In the late 1990s San Miguel Island held 15 foxes, down from about 450; after 44 golden eagles were relocated and 226 captive-bred foxes returned, the island counted roughly 322 in 2024
20+ hour, 34+ min ago (388+ words) Fifteen foxes. That was the count on San Miguel Island at the end of the 1990s, on an island that had carried about 450 of them, a population so small that biologists could have known every animal by name and very nearly…...
From 1999 to 2006 crews moved 44 golden eagles off the Channel Islands and cleared more than 5,000 feral pigs from Santa Cruz; that island's fox count rose from 55 to 3,086 by 2024
20+ hour, 45+ min ago (323+ words) What looked like a conservation dead end became the fastest mammal recovery ever recorded—all by removing the predators and competitors that nearly erased an island fox from existence. By Lab Report · Edited by Justin Brown Published September 12, 2026 · How we…...
Blueberry seeds pulled out of five wolf scats in northern Minnesota germinated at 96 percent against 69 percent for seeds taken straight from the fruit, and half of them had sprouted by day 19 rather than day 26
23+ hour, 59+ min ago (721+ words) The difference is real and the size of it is not settled: measured against the best of the study's three control batches, the advantage shrinks from 27 percentage points to five. By Natural History · Edited by Chris Jeremia Published September 12, 2026 · How…...
On July 11, 1859, Big Ben rang for the first time before cracking that September. The hour was struck on the largest quarter bell for four years. The fix was to turn Big Ben 90 degrees, fit a lighter hammer and cut a small square out of the metal. The crack is still there.
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (861+ words) A crack in London's most iconic bell has been broadcasting across centuries—and nobody bothered to fix it. By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 12, 2026 · How we edit The bell most of the world thinks of as the sound of…...
The U.S. Postal Service will still carry boxes of newborn chickens, ducks, geese, quail and even emus — but they must enter the mail within 24 hours of hatching and be deliverable within 72
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (535+ words) A century-old loophole lets farmers mail millions of live birds across the country—as long as they're still damp from the egg. Published September 10, 2026 · How we edit Somewhere in America right now, a cardboard box is chirping. That box is…...
In 98 years of the University of Queensland pitch drop experiment, nine drops have fallen and no human has ever seen one land
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (1083+ words) The University of Queensland pitch drop experiment has been running since 1927, dripped nine times, and never once been seen falling by a human eye. The tenth drop is now forming. By The Long View Published September 10, 2026 · How we edit Inside…...
In the early 1970s, volunteers and county crews sank up to 2 million tires off Fort Lauderdale to build a reef — broken straps, corroding clips and storms scattered them, and cleanup crews have since hauled more than 600,000 back up
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (582+ words) What began as an environmental triumph—dumping millions of tires to build an artificial reef—became one of the ocean's most stubborn cleanup nightmares. Published September 10, 2026 · How we edit On 22 April 1972, a Goodyear blimp hung over the water off Fort…...