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In South America’s Andes, farmers pray for rain to end drought

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Tihuanacu, Bolivia Reuters High in the mountains of the Bolivian Andes, farmer Alberto Quispe has one thing on his mind: rain. In the rural area of Tihuanacu, around 100 kilometres south-west of highland city La Paz, locals say there has been little rain this season during a dry spell across the Andean regions due to […]

Essay: Why Artemis may be the last mission for NASA astronauts

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In an article first published on The Conversation, MARTIN REES, emeritus professor of cosmology and astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, spells out why Artemis is “ultimately more likely to be a swansong than the launch of a new Apollo era”…