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Lake Erie Sediments: All Dredged Up with Nowhere to Grow

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Hear Ye! Hear Ye! A Declaration of the Rights of the Moon

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What are the ethics of mining the Moon? Could humans cause environmental damage to Earth’s only satellite? And could a new Declaration of the Rights of the Moon be one way of mitigating those impacts?

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