extraction
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“We need a good extraction method that can actually pull trash out in a rapid amount of time.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
Not only does the extraction of metals like gold involve large amounts of water, but it also uses cyanide and releases other pollutants, posing major environmental and health risks.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
"Deep-sea ecosystems are vast, remote and expensive to study, yet they face growing pressure from climate change, fishing and resource extraction," Associate Professor Richards said.
From Science Daily • May 14, 2026
Both cast debt as a bogeyman turning capitalism into an extraction device that, left unchecked or unwisely channeled, can take everything from any of us.
From Salon • May 4, 2026
But the Dreamers have improved themselves, and the damming of seas for voltage, the extraction of coal, the transmuting of oil into food, have enabled an expansion in plunder with no known precedent.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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