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Science · 2026-08-13
NASA Astronaut Mike Fincke Leaves NASA, Career Includes 4 Spaceflights
NASA astronaut Mike Fincke is departing the agency on Wednesday after 30 years of service. Throughout his career, he flew four missions, spent 549 days in space, and completed nine spacewalks in suppo
World · 2026-08-10
Whose conservation, whose development? The Maasai struggle over land in northern Tanzania
Conservation has become a tool for “green grabbing”: The taking of community land in the name of environmental protection while opening space for tourism, hunting, and investment interests.
World · 2026-08-10
A stateless traveler’s journey through ignorance and misinformation
“As a person who was born stateless ... I have learned to fear things that come naturally to other people.”