Posts Tagged ‘Mud’

Hydrofracked? One Man’s Mystery Leads to a Backlash Against Natural Gas Drilling

Friday, February 25th, 2011
There are few things a family needs to survive more than fresh drinking water. And Louis Meeks, a burly, jowled Vietnam War hero who had long ago planted his roots on these sparse eastern Wyoming grasslands, was drilling a new well in search of it. The drill bit spun, whining against the alluvial mud and rock that folds beneath the Wind River Range foothills. It ploughed to 160 feet, but the ...

On the trail of the otter

Friday, June 11th, 2010
From the point of near extinction in England, the otter has made an extraordinary comeback. But just how easy is it to spot one? Jon Henley hunkers down to wait So here we are on a pin-bright, late-May morning, Kevin O'Hara and I, squatting in the mud beneath a small humpbacked bridge over the River Lynne, half an hour from downtown Newcastle, looking for poo. Not just any poo, mind. A special ...

Gardening: medicine for the body and mind

Saturday, May 8th, 2010
Working with earth, planting seeds and tending plants can help people with a range of physical and mental health problems I spent much of the weekend working in my garden. Well, to be honest, it isn't really a garden, just a patch of mud and nettles, a�convenient dump for unwanted items: a rusting child's bicycle, tyres long flat, whose owner is now in college; a broken fish tank; a couple of ...

Backhoe saved from Phuket mire

Friday, May 7th, 2010
RASSADA, PHUKET: A machine operator is crediting divine intervention for the safe recovery of his backhoe, which was successfully pulled from a saltwater mud flat after a 15-hour operation yesterday.