Hidden Helpers: Pittsburgh’s Industrial Past Might Hold the Key to a Cleaner Future

“Pittsburgh has reinvented itself from a steel powerhouse to a hub for health care and education. But the city’s industrial past left a hidden legacy: toxic compounds like benzene and toluene in the soil. While most life can’t survive such a contamination, some microbes adapted to use the pollutants as food.

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