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Intrepid Announces Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2023 Results

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Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Denver, CO, March 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Intrepid Potash, Inc. (NYSE:IPI) ("Intrepid", the "Company", "we", "us" and "our") today reports its financial results for the fourth quarter and full-year of 2023.

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  • Denver, CO, March 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Intrepid Potash, Inc. (NYSE:IPI) ("Intrepid", the "Company", "we", "us" and "our") today reports its financial results for the fourth quarter and full-year of 2023.
  • Included in the GAAP net loss figures are non-cash impairment charges of $42.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2023 and $43.3 million for the full-year 2023.
  • Adjusted EBITDA(1) of $7.1 million for the fourth quarter, bringing our full-year 2023 adjusted EBITDA to $41.6 million.
  • Intrepid generated fourth quarter and full-year 2023 sales of approximately $56.7 million and $279.1 million, respectively, which compares to fourth quarter and full-year 2022 sales of approximately $66.7 million and $337.6 million, respectively.

Supreme Court dismisses Secure Energy's application to appeal the successful challenge of Secure and Tervita merger

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Monday, February 26, 2024

GATINEAU, QC, Feb. 26, 2024 /CNW/ - The Competition Bureau welcomes the Supreme Court of Canada's (SCC) decision to dismiss an application by Secure Energy seeking leave to appeal the Bureau's successful challenge of the merger of two rival suppliers of oilfield waste services.

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  • GATINEAU, QC, Feb. 26, 2024 /CNW/ - The Competition Bureau welcomes the Supreme Court of Canada's (SCC) decision to dismiss an application by Secure Energy seeking leave to appeal the Bureau's successful challenge of the merger of two rival suppliers of oilfield waste services.
  • The Bureau recently approved R360 Environmental Solutions Canada Inc. as the buyer of the 29 facilities.
  • The facilities include 17 treatment, recovery, and disposal facilities, 4 standalone water disposal wells, 6 landfills and 2 caverns.
  • Secure acquired these facilities as part of the merger.

Ice ages were not as dry as we thought, according to surprising new Australian cave study

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024

During ice ages, dry, frozen terrain extended over much of northern Europe, Asia and North America.

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  • During ice ages, dry, frozen terrain extended over much of northern Europe, Asia and North America.
  • For a long time scientists have thought that dry conditions prevailed across the globe during ice ages, and that the warm periods between ice ages were much wetter.

Ice ages and hemispheres

  • Over the past million years or so, Earth’s climate has oscillated between cold ice ages (or “glacial” periods) and warmer “interglacial” periods.
  • During glacial periods, temperatures were lower, there was less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and ice sheets covered more of the globe.
  • Evidence from the northern hemisphere shows huge ice sheets spread across the northern parts of Europe, northern Asia and North America during glacial periods, and large areas south of the ice were covered with tundra.

Developing a 350,000 year climate record

  • These deposits, which include stalagmites and stalactites, build up over time as rainwater filters down through soil and limestone into the cave.
  • We can use the extent of speleothem growth over time to understand changes in water availability.
  • Our understanding of past changes in the climate and environment of the southern hemisphere has been limited by a lack of well-dated and long-term records.
  • As a result, we produced a precipitation record spanning the last 350,000 years.

Wetter and colder, warmer and drier

  • Over the past 350,000 years, wetter times always occurred within the cooler, glacial periods, while interglacials were consistently dry.
  • We found wet glacials and dry interglacials were not confined to southern Australia, but in fact, formed a hemisphere-wide pattern.

Stable environments with abundant water

  • However, our research suggests that – at least in the subtropical southern hemisphere – glacial periods were often times of relatively stable environments with abundant water, even if low levels of carbon dioxide meant plants were slow-growing and relatively unproductive.
  • Our research calls for a big paradigm shift in how we view past ice-age environments across the Earth.


Rieneke Weij receives funding from the University of Cape Town and the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust. Jon Woodhead receives funding from the Australian Research Council Josephine Brown receives funding from the National Environmental Science Program and the Australian Research Council. Kale Sniderman receives funding from the Australian Research Council Liz Reed receives funding from Australian Research Council.

How long did Neanderthals and modern humans co-exist in Europe? Evidence is growing it may have been at least 10,000 years

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024

The idea that two different human species, Homo sapiens (us) and Neanderthals, co-existed in western Eurasia 50–40,000 years ago has long captured the imagination of academics and the public alike.

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  • The idea that two different human species, Homo sapiens (us) and Neanderthals, co-existed in western Eurasia 50–40,000 years ago has long captured the imagination of academics and the public alike.
  • It is therefore not surprising that this time period – the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition – has been a focus of research for many archaeologists, physical anthropologists and, more recently, geneticists.
  • Human skeletal remains are comparatively rare, with many of the best-known fossils having been excavated under less than ideal conditions in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Major revisions

  • This means the smallest amounts of more recent contamination from the burial environment, or from museum conservation materials, can make dating finds from these sites extremely challenging.
  • This has resulted in major revisions to the chronology of early human occupation over the past decade, shifting some dates on Neanderthal and modern human remains by many thousands of years.
  • This is obviously crucial to the debate, since it is impossible to speak of overlap or replacement without a robust chronology.
  • These teeth came from the same sediment levels as the human remains.
  • The results place the people in a particularly cold snap around 45–43,000 years ago.
  • The H. sapiens remains are associated with what was previously considered an ambiguous stone tool industry (a particular way of making tools) called the Lincombian–Ranisian–Jerzmanowician (LRJ).

Mystery toolmakers

  • Most notable is the Châtelperronian of southern France and northern Spain: do the Neanderthal remains accompanying some of these “modern-looking” tool industries mean they were the toolmakers, or is the association fortuitous?
  • Most caves with Palaeolithic deposits saw intermittent occupation, often by both Neanderthals and H. sapiens, over millennia.
  • The dates for the levels under consideration still span several millennia, during which there may well have been short-term visits by both camps.

New archaeological techniques

  • The results from Ranis, as well as contributing important new data to our understanding of the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition, highlight the contributions of recent developments in archaeological science.
  • This technique was also applied to the site’s fauna in another companion paper.
  • Then, relatively high-precision radiocarbon dates were obtained for both the sediment level and the human remains themselves.
  • But most importantly for the question at hand, ancient DNA analysis – in this case, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) – confirmed the identification as H. sapiens.


Rick Schulting does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Excavation of colossal caverns for Fermilab’s DUNE experiment completed

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Thursday, February 1, 2024

Located a mile below the surface, the three colossal caverns are at the core of a new research facility that spans an underground area about the size of eight soccer fields.

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  • Located a mile below the surface, the three colossal caverns are at the core of a new research facility that spans an underground area about the size of eight soccer fields.
  • The caverns provide space for four large neutrino detectors—each one about the size of a seven-story building (see 2-minute animation ).
  • With DUNE, scientists will look for neutrinos and examine the behavior of a neutrino beam produced at Fermilab, located near Chicago, about 800 miles east of the caverns.
  • “The completion of the excavation of these enormous caverns is a significant achievement for this project,” said U.S. Project Director Chris Mossey.

WASTE CONNECTIONS ANNOUNCES CLOSING OF ACQUISITION OF SECURE ENERGY WASTE DIVESTITURES IN WESTERN CANADA

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Thursday, February 1, 2024

TORONTO, Feb. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Waste Connections, Inc. (TSX/NYSE: WCN) ("Waste Connections" or "the Company") today announced the closing of the previously announced acquisition of the Secure Energy Services Inc. (TSX: SES) ("Secure") portfolio of 30 energy waste treatment and disposal facilities in Western Canada for an aggregate purchase price of CAD$1.075 billion.

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  • TORONTO, Feb. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Waste Connections, Inc. (TSX/NYSE: WCN) ("Waste Connections" or "the Company") today announced the closing of the previously announced acquisition of the Secure Energy Services Inc. (TSX: SES) ("Secure") portfolio of 30 energy waste treatment and disposal facilities in Western Canada for an aggregate purchase price of CAD$1.075 billion.
  • "We are pleased to expand our R360 E&P waste operations into Canada, and we welcome the former Secure employees to the Waste Connections family," said Ronald J. Mittelstaedt, President and Chief Executive Officer.
  • Waste Connections ( wasteconnections.com ) is an integrated solid waste services company that provides non-hazardous waste collection, transfer and disposal services, including by rail, along with resource recovery primarily through recycling and renewable fuels generation.
  • You should not place undue reliance on forward‑looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release.

NASA Shares Assignments for its SpaceX Crew-9 Space Station Mission

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Wednesday, January 31, 2024

They will arrive to the space station for a short duration handover with NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 mission

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  • They will arrive to the space station for a short duration handover with NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 mission
    This will be the first spaceflight for Cardman, who was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2017.
  • With a total of 203 days in space, this will be Hague's third launch and second mission to the orbiting laboratory.
  • Five months later, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and served as a flight engineer aboard the space station during Expeditions 59 and 60.
  • Hague conducted three spacewalks, to upgrade space station power systems and install a docking adapter for commercial spacecraft.

Nintendo Download: Days of Present Past

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Thursday, January 18, 2024

Help Ashley Mizuki Robins solve riddles, gather clues and investigate the traces of the past to uncover the true fates of her parents.

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  • Help Ashley Mizuki Robins solve riddles, gather clues and investigate the traces of the past to uncover the true fates of her parents.
  • Another Code: Recollection launches on Jan. 19 and will be available in Nintendo eShop or in the My Nintendo Store on Nintendo.com.
  • Download the free demo featuring the game’s first chapter from Nintendo eShop today, then carry over your progress to the full game after purchasing.
  • Nintendo eShop sales on Nintendo Switch:
    Also new this week in Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch:

Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age Rise Again on Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack Next Week!

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Friday, January 12, 2024

The Game Boy™ Advance games Golden Sun™ and Golden Sun™: The Lost Age are making their debuts on the Nintendo Switch ™ system on Jan. 16, available for everyone with a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership as part of the Game Boy Advance – Nintendo Switch Online library.

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  • The Game Boy™ Advance games Golden Sun™ and Golden Sun™: The Lost Age are making their debuts on the Nintendo Switch ™ system on Jan. 16, available for everyone with a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership as part of the Game Boy Advance – Nintendo Switch Online library.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240111751140/en/
    The Game Boy Advance games Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age are making their debuts on the Nintendo Switch system on Jan. 16, available for everyone with a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership as part of the Game Boy Advance – Nintendo Switch Online library.
  • For more information, and to learn about a free seven-day Nintendo Switch Online trial, go to the Nintendo Switch Online section on the Nintendo Switch HOME Menu or visit https://www.nintendo.com/us/switch/online/ .
  • Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership (sold separately) and Nintendo Account required to access Nintendo 64 – Nintendo Switch Online library of games.

VIRTUOSO® NAMES NINE MUST-HAVE EXPERIENCES FOR 2024

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Friday, January 12, 2024

Stargazers wanting a warmer climate can view the total solar eclipse on April 8 in Northern Mexico.

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  • Stargazers wanting a warmer climate can view the total solar eclipse on April 8 in Northern Mexico.
  • Seek solace from the stresses of daily life in the happiest country in the world or the Land of Smiles.
  • Japan's unique culture coupled with incredible cuisine captivates travelers, making it the Luxe Report's top reemerging destination in 2024.
  • A Virtuoso travel advisor can book these nine must-have experiences or tailor a trip to exact preferences.