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Meet a team of scientists working to prevent interplanetary pollution that could pose a threat to life on Earth and other planets

Frontiers

Formulating policies for planetary protection issues and keeping them up-to-date is the responsibility of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) panel on planetary protection. How to ensure that as many spacefaring nations as possible are onboard and can contribute to and comply with this policy?

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Inflationary adjustment to Frontiers’ Article Processing Charges

Frontiers

We offset all the costs associated with our high-quality publishing service through APCs, continuously investing into our operations and open science platform. Frontiers’ business model is Gold Open Access. Frontiers organizes APCs according to categories that correspond to the maturity of each journal.

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60% of home ‘compostable’ plastic doesn’t fully break down, ending up in our soil

Frontiers

By Suzanna Burgelman, Frontiers science writer. Purkiss and her colleagues designed a three-part citizen science study, The Big Compost Experiment , to investigate what the public thinks about home compostable plastics, how we deal with them, and whether they fully disintegrate in our compost. Read original article ?

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Chesapeake Bay Foundation's 2022 State Of The Bay Score Unchanged, States Must Focus On Agriculture, Stormwater Pollution

PA Environment Daily

Despite these challenges, the federal/state Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, based on the world’s best science, remains the most promising plan for restoring local rivers, streams, and the Chesapeake Bay. The good news is that the Bay is remarkably resilient and there is tremendous energy around the table.

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9th Compendium Of Studies On Health & Environmental Harms From Natural Gas Development Released - ‘The Rapidly Expanding Body Of Evidence Compiled Here Is Massive, Troubling And Cries Out For Decisive Action’

PA Environment Daily

On October 18, Dr. Sandra Steingraber, Senior Scientist with the Science and Environmental Health Network , provided an overview of findings from the newly published 9th Compendium of Scientific, Medical, Media Findings Demonstrating Risk, Harms of Natural Gas Development and Infrastructure during a briefing hosted by the Better Path Coalition.

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ESA Policy News: May 4, 2023

ESA

In this issue: ESA Graduate Student Policy Award Recipients Visit Capitol Hill Fifteen ESA members and graduate students visit Congressional offices for the first in-person Graduate Student Policy Award event since 2019. Students met with 30 Congressional offices April 25 in Washington, DC. Levy, Chou and Marsten all are GSPA alumni.

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Roundup: Problematic COVID-19 Metrics and a Toxic Science Workplace 

Union of Concerned Scientists

At the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, revelations about a toxic workplace and ethics concerns resulted in its director’s departure while the agency is in the midst of essential work to strengthen the scientific integrity infrastructure across the executive branch. Science editor-in-chief H.