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Engineered Bacteria Can Fill Cracks In Aging Concrete
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Bacteria Have Eaten Giant Gulf Oil Plume, New Study Says
![A Slick Fix: Oil-Eating Robots Could Mop Up Ocean Disasters](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/PV27RMGUVQYP4XQZTO77CODJQE.jpg?w=525)
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A Slick Fix: Oil-Eating Robots Could Mop Up Ocean Disasters
![Six Quiet Climate Villains](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/FKNEF35465Z5GHDK3KC6FLJSUM.jpg?w=525)
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Six Quiet Climate Villains
![When Things Fall Apart](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/ZN2DFWUVKGW5CTEU4LOSREKMJY.jpg?w=525)
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When Things Fall Apart
![How Do Oil Dispersants Work?](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/M2WV7KJQ52ME4LS3JIXKW4HNRA.jpg?w=677)
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How Do Oil Dispersants Work?
![Lasers Could Create Clouds, and Perhaps Rain, on Demand](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/QSH4FJGJLIZFU6T4OV24LOVXJY.jpg?w=588)
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Lasers Could Create Clouds, and Perhaps Rain, on Demand
![Archive Gallery: The Birth of Environmentalism](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/FEQI45AED5AKIMD2BDESO7ZSOE.jpg?w=525)
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Archive Gallery: The Birth of Environmentalism
![Bill Gates’s 2010 TED Talk Now Online](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/YIFVBQ3ODMLE4NSH7IQ7SSTBZE.png?w=501)
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Bill Gates’s 2010 TED Talk Now Online
![Bill Gates’s Hidden Dreams of Geoengineering Revealed](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/W2B75HPBXG4XMW7V3L4WCJN7Z4.jpg?w=554)
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Bill Gates’s Hidden Dreams of Geoengineering Revealed
![Carbon Nanotube Sponge Could Suck Up Oil Spills](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/UM3RP3BNHIED235BMZHJQXA2LI.jpg?w=374)
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Carbon Nanotube Sponge Could Suck Up Oil Spills
![Coal-Fired Power Plants](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/MKMS2VLXRIXQI4V5H6ZLSI3D6I.gif?w=610)
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WWF: We Have Until 2014 To Stop Global Warming
![Warming Oceans May Cause the Earth to Tilt](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/IPOTTD7ZW662AJBRWJID5OZMJI.jpg?w=525)
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Warming Oceans May Cause the Earth to Tilt
![Nitrogen-Fueled Fireworks are Green, But Pricey](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/PAH2F4XOG3RSD3UNAYTVIXBQLY.jpg?w=675)
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Nitrogen-Fueled Fireworks are Green, But Pricey
![The First Secretary of Climate Change](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/U6IHB5OFAE6UJT54JK43V7ICHM.jpg?w=398)
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The First Secretary of Climate Change
![Geoengineering: Are Weather Machines Really the Answer?](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/VEIXSOJ6EBBBKOOEVEELCT4TWQ.jpg?w=485)
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Geoengineering: Are Weather Machines Really the Answer?
![Report: 300,000 Die Every Year From Climate Change](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/T6HJU2KEKIURRFPSI65RGPKRHQ.jpg?w=485)
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Report: 300,000 Die Every Year From Climate Change
![Giant Antarctic Ice Bridge Collapses](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/JEO54S53I2JVL6CIZCR32KOAPI.jpg?w=437)
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Giant Antarctic Ice Bridge Collapses
![Climate Change Skeptics](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/K2YWBASVSMLCOSG7A5RLLBIFGA.jpg?w=485)
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Climate Change Skeptics
![Weather Prediction, Climate Prediction. What’s the Diff?](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/AZNY47ZOLY5VJ2VANDKDPTKLPU.gif?w=336)
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Weather Prediction, Climate Prediction. What’s the Diff?
![The Top Ten Greenhouse Gases](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/07/VUFDIGIE7SXEM5NHX2CZNVZDCA.gif?w=485)
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The Top Ten Greenhouse Gases
![Diving for Ancient History, Scientists Discover New Species](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/NXBL6UXFFFLHNCSXCC46P5ZSXA.jpg?w=486)
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Diving for Ancient History, Scientists Discover New Species
![The Big Thaw](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/GLYNUVZXDV3D3EJK4MMLVMIBSI.jpg?w=600)
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The Big Thaw
![Salt Water Rising](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/7EOO4CT5K4ZGXBAS5VJ2XB3GZQ.jpg?w=677)
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Salt Water Rising
![The Other Big Meltdown](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/BSARWBVOFLEAFU6Y5FI4JSCQOI.gif?w=485)
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The Other Big Meltdown
![Global Warming: Not So Bad?](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/4ZIT5BBTNFJPXNMEMI2HAZPH2A.jpg?w=600)
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Global Warming: Not So Bad?
![Bad for People, Great for Plants](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/WKTJPKI4DKMSPTAW7OACA6A5F4.jpg?w=500)
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Bad for People, Great for Plants
![Does Smoking Contribute to Global Warming?](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/NJF2G7XTSI4VI5HI4NBLX6UJVQ.jpg?w=680)
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Does Smoking Contribute to Global Warming?
![Ocean pH and the Fate of the Food Chain](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/T63V6DNADNIIFUDFV56X7GPIXE.jpg?w=500)
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Ocean pH and the Fate of the Food Chain
![A propane torch blowing gas onto a catalytic converter, heating the ceramic red-hot.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/5EC35MDAGIA4WQN73BG4HR4AIE.jpg?w=421)
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Gray Matter: Fire without flame
![Konrad Steffen: The Global Warming Prophet](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/VABBTFXSFDAPVYKJ3TADKD4FMM.jpg?w=485)
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Konrad Steffen: The Global Warming Prophet
![Duct Tape Methods to Save the Earth: Re-Ice the Arctic](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/PTNMFFLR7YEPTPSWI4LFMNRBDE.jpg?w=485)
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Duct Tape Methods to Save the Earth: Re-Ice the Arctic
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State of the Climate
![space "mirror" scatters sunlight with a mesh woven of fine metal wires](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/INQT6HOWBKQZC6BWA6F6DKPMKU.jpg?w=485)
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