In their letter, the Nobel laureates confirm that as the linchpin to driving massive expansion of extraction of the high carbon tar sands from under Canada's Boreal forest, Keystone XL would add billions of tons of new carbon pollution to the atmosphere and worsen climate change.
These areas were also occupied by an extensive mining industry, for the extraction of massive limestones for building and ornamental stone that had an important role for the reconstruction of Lisbon after the earthquake of 1755.
The other rightwing panacea is to drill-baby-drill our way out of debt -- to embark on massive and permanently increasing extraction of fossil fuels, all from within our borders.
It would have to look beyond the easy-to-reach sources that had powered it in the past and make massive investments in the extraction of what the industry calls "unconventional oil" and what I labeled at the time "tough oil": resources located far offshore, in the threatening environments of the far north, in politically dangerous places like Iraq, or in unyielding rock formations like shale.
The "-omics" era has brought with it numerous challenges and hurdles, the most significant being the processing of the massive amount of datasets and the extraction of biological meaning from them [ 3].
Medical big data comes across several issues regarding extraction of structures, storage of massive data streams, and uncovering the useful knowledge patterns.
Parselelo Kantai put it more bluntly: "What is happening on the continent economically is a new era of massive resource extraction, catalysed mostly by Chinese domestic demands.
Parselelo Kantai put it more bluntly: "What is happening on the continent economically is a new era of massive resource extraction, catalyzed mostly by Chinese domestic demands.
After spending the greater part of the last year exploring the massive oil extraction and environmental degradation of the Bakken oil fields here in the Great Plains of the United States, there are many parallels to be made.
Data analytics allows the extraction of insight or conclusions from existing massive data sets.
