Last week, the Trump administration released a presidential budget request that would cancel almost all NASA science missions in order to focus on putting humans on Mars. It's mainly a showy, ...

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Brookfield Renewable Partners boosted its stake in TerraForm Power, which sets the stage for high-end distribution growth in the coming years. Brookfield, along with its institutional partners, ...

This story originally featured on the MIT Press Reader. Exploration, habitation, and resource extraction all carry a risk of inflicting environmental damage in space, just as they do here on Earth.