pumping
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But there’s a biological reason: Sea turtles are cold-blooded, and don’t heal as fast as creatures with warm blood pumping through their veins.
From Los Angeles Times
But if it’s low, the tech will likely just simply up the level, pumping a small amount of fresh fluid in with loads of the nasty old stuff.
More than half of all large lakes are shrinking, and most of the world’s major underground sources are declining irreversibly as agricultural pumping drains water that took centuries or even thousands of years to accumulate.
From Los Angeles Times
Chevron currently employs about 3,000 people through its four Venezuela joint ventures, which are pumping some 240,000 barrels of oil a day, about one-third of the country’s diminished production.
The researchers emphasize that "biological carbon pumping" -- the ocean's natural process that transfers carbon from the atmosphere into the deep sea layers -- is the main mechanism connecting microplastics to climate change.
From Science Daily
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