But it is the states that may have the most to lose if these clean up goals are put in to effect.

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The Systems Biology Knowledgebase or KBase will allow scientists to predict the effect of microbes on their communities and if they can clean-up contaminated environments or sequester carbon on land, for example.

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As new regulations clean up shipping fuels in order to improve air quality in coastal regions, that brightening effect will be reduced, adding to the world's warming in a sort of inadvertent reverse geoengineering.

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The editor-in-chief of Bicycling magazine, Peter Flax, told HLNTV.com that he thinks the scandal would have an effect in the short term but that people should understand that cycling has already made moves to clean up its act.

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