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Researcher Tami Bond won a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship for her work investigating the sources of black carbon emissions.

A newly-minted ‘genius’ hopes to stop pollution from soot and smoke

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We’ve all seen black carbon in the form or the soot or smoke that rises from coal fires or cooking stoves. It’s one of the biggest sources of greenhouse pollution on earth, and researcher Tami Bond won a MacArthur Fellowship to help chase black carbon sources around the world — and stop them.

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