There is just over a month left to register for the 2025 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston, Mass. from Feb. 13 – 15. Eligible journalists, public information officers, and journalism professors and students can attend for free. 

An international team of scientists has called for the creation of an 18^th addition to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which would aim to mitigate against the accumulation of space junk in Earth’s orbit. They believe a new SDG18 could draw direct inspiration from one of the existing goals – SDG14: Life Below Water – with lessons learned in marine debris management being used to prevent another planetary crisis before it is too late.