Tag Archives: Mud

It was a typical afternoon at Ziggy’s Refuge Farm Sanctuary (ZRFS) when owners Kristin Hartness and Jay Yontz suddenly had a concerning realization: They hadn’t seen their beloved senior pup, Whitey, in a few hours. The couple began scanning the 110-acre farm, accounting for all 100 of their animals, minus Whitey. As the hours passed with no signs of Whitey, …

Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (NYSE:FCX) has released an update on the September 8 mud rush at its Grasberg Block Cave mine in Indonesia that killed two workers and left five still unaccounted for. The company said teams continue to work nonstop to clear debris and reach areas where the missing workers were last located. Authorities in Indonesia are overseeing the search while …

Victoria Gill, Kate Stephens and Gwyndaf Hughes BBC News Science team Elisenda Balleste The researchers worked from a vessel at a number of locations around the Antarctic Peninsula Why would anyone brave hand-numbing cold, icy winds and rough seas – sometimes working through the night – to dig up mud from the Antarctic seabed? That is what an international team …

The Atlantic Ocean did not spring into existence in a sudden tectonic snap; its earliest pulse can now be traced through a set of one-kilometer-long mud waves lying more than 3,000 feet below today’s seafloor some 250 miles west of Guinea-Bissau. New seismic profiles and cores date these colossal ripples to roughly 117 million years old, which shifts the birth …

Ancient Mud Just Shattered a 750,000-Year-Old Ice Myth  SciTechDaily Source link

A new study published in Science Advances is upending decades of scientific belief about the history of the Arctic. Contrary to the long-held theory that a massive, kilometer-thick ice shelf blanketed the Arctic Ocean during the coldest ice ages, new evidence suggests that the Arctic was never fully frozen. By analyzing ancient ocean mud and conducting advanced climate simulations, researchers …