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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Alexandra Witze
Summary: NASA's Ingenuity helicopter successfully hovered for 40 seconds in Mars's thin atmosphere.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Michelle McLean, Charlotte Phelps, Jessica Smith, Neelam Maheshwari, Vineesha Veer, Dayna Bushell, Richard Matthews, Belinda Craig, Christian Moro
Summary: A Code Red has been declared for the planet and human health. Climate change threatens the earth's ecosystems and urgent action is needed to address this existential threat. Bond University in Australia has integrated planetary health into its medical curriculum, allowing learners to develop competencies for global and planetary citizenship. A learner-centered planetary health assignment, aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, has been implemented over five years, with students proposing solutions for climate change and working towards specific SDGs.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
News Item
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Alexandra Witze
Summary: NASA's InSight mission has provided the first data on the internal structure of a planet other than Earth, revealing surprising cake-like layers in the crust of Mars.
News Item
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Alexandra Witze
Summary: Scientists are seeking guidance on responsibly exploring the frozen caches at the lunar poles to prevent contamination of the Moon's precious ice.
News Item
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Alexandra Witze
Summary: The Mars helicopter's creation of "cool" dust clouds has unexpectedly provided researchers with new insight into natural "dust devils" on the red planet.
News Item
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Alexandra Witze
Summary: After completing its first year on Mars, Perseverance will explore an ancient delta in search of evidence of past life.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Owen Dan Luo, Yasmeen Razvi, Gurleen Kaur, Michelle Lim, Kelti Smith, Jacob Joel Kirsh Carson, Claudel Petrin-Desrosiers, Victoria Haldane, Nicole Simms, Fiona A. Miller
Summary: More and more healthcare professionals are recognizing the importance of delivering low-carbon sustainable health systems. This study explored how physicians can be motivated and supported in their pursuit of this goal. Through interviews with climate-engaged Canadian physicians, the study identified actions physicians can take to promote sustainable healthcare and the motivators and enablers of physician engagement in this area.
LANCET PLANETARY HEALTH
(2023)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Matthew M. Hedman
Summary: A distant object in the Solar System has a ring that is located unusually far from its main body, leading to speculation about the prevention of clumping for moon formation.
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Alexandra Witze
Summary: A series of commercial missions to the Moon are scheduled to launch in 2023, with the first lander set to touch down this month, heralding a new era for Moon science and exploration.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jaana I. Halonen, Marina Erhola, Eeva Furman, Tari Haahtela, Pekka Jousilahti, Robert Barouki, Ake Bergman, Nils E. Billo, Richard Fuller, Andrew Haines, Manolis Kogevinas, Marike Kolossa-Gehring, Kinga Krauze, Timo Lanki, Joana Lobo Vicente, Peter Messerli, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Riikka Paloniemi, Annette Peters, Karl-Heinz Posch, Pekka Timonen, Roel Vermeulen, Suvi M. Virtanen, Jean Bousquet, Josep M. Anto
Summary: The conference in Helsinki in 2019 highlighted the importance of promoting the concept of Planetary Health in Europe and concluded with an intention for action. The Helsinki Declaration underscored the urgent need to address the threats posed by human activities to the health of the planet, calling for global, regional, national, local, and individual actions, as well as multidisciplinary and multi-sectorial collaboration.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2021)
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Carla Sassi, Gabriel Domingos Carvalho, Leonardo Maggio de Castro, Claudio Zago Junior, Vania de Fatima Plaza Nunes, Arthur Augusto Tavares do Nascimento, Ana Liz Ferreira Bastos, Luciana Guimaraes Santana, Ilka do Nascimento Goncalves
Summary: This paper focuses on participatory knowledge-to-action approaches based on the interdisciplinary concept of One Health, EcoHealth, and Planetary Health. It relates one decade of environmental disasters in Brazil with the action of veterinary rescue teams, aiming to support future disaster preparedness. The historic actions of teams rescuing animals in environmental disasters in Brazilian states were presented, emphasizing the need for contingency plans and response management in such events.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
News Item
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Elizabeth Gibney
Summary: Scientists are determining the time that local atomic clocks will keep for satellite navigation systems in lunar settlements.
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Virginia Gewin, Savannah Braden
Summary: Savannah Braden monitors how fruits ripen and rot in order to reduce food waste.
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Miriam Fritscher, Jens Teiser
Summary: The coagulation of micrometer-sized particles marks the beginning of planet formation. Experimental results show that CO2 ice agglomerates behave similarly to silicate agglomerates, allowing for the application of collision dynamics models developed for silicate dust.
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Rebecca Bunnell, Juliet Ryan, Charlotte Kent
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the necessity for a new strategic science agenda in public health, addressing gaps such as health equity science, data science, communication science, policy analysis, scientific collaboration, and climate science. Public health leadership and scientists have a unique opportunity to use strategic science to guide an era of improved and equitable public health.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)