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Engineers cook up a new way to tackle CO2: Make baking soda
Engineers have found a material that can collect carbon dioxide from the air. When later mixed with water, it forms baking soda that can be shed in the sea.
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- Animals
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- Climate
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- Climate
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- Chemistry
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- Climate
Greenland’s inland ice is melting far faster than anyone thought
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- Earth
Analyze This: Wildfires are pumping more pollution into U.S. skies
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