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A group of people wearing yellow hard hats and vests stand near a demolition site.

Rethinking waste, one art project at a time

 Environment
• July 22, 2024

Artist Kaitlin Pomerantz is on a mission to repurpose the unused, forgotten fragments that glue society together  

Image of David Holland

The climate mathematician

 Environment
• June 25, 2024

As the world warms, scientist David Holland is building a weather forecast for the polar ice caps

Andrew Coté, a NYC-based beekeeper, stands at his booth at the Union Square Farmers Market. He is surrounded by jars of honey.

Losing the scent

 Environment
• January 25, 2024

A new study suggests air pollution is changing flowers’ scents, throwing bees off-course

Yellow mealworms, the larvae of the yellow mealworm beetle, sit in clear plastic bins across from containers of small white plastic beads.

Insect microbes face off against the plastic pollution crisis

 Environment
• January 4, 2024

Plastic-eating enzymes in the guts of mealworms are one of many bug-centric ideas being studied, but environmentalists say it dodges the real solution: use less

Framed by a clear blue sky, a woman plants dune grass on a beach in New York City.

NYC students make ‘shore’ Coney Island is safe from storms by planting grasses

 Video
• May 30, 2023

Students from three schools participated in a program to create ‘living shorelines’ along the coast to protect communities from storm surge and flooding

A botanist peers through a tiny magnifying glass to observe a small piece of moss. He is surrounded by tall phragmites, a type of invasive plant.

On Staten Island, flood control plans threaten a haven for rare plants

 Environment
• May 5, 2023

Ten years after Superstorm Sandy struck the east coast, naturalists worry a government-funded storm mitigation plan will wipe out a historic ecosystem

Two hands with grey fingerless gloves hold up the ridged underside of a white oyster mushroom

A mushroom walk on Staten Island

 Environment
• March 18, 2023

The New York Mycological Society is a “mushroom club for anyone”

child smashing a pumpkin with a garden tool

Don’t toss your rotting pumpkins — smash them!

 Environment
• February 1, 2023

Millions of pumpkins end up in landfills every Halloween season, but there’s a better alternative

A photograph of the activist/artist Sarah Cameron Sunde in a red wind breaker, standing on the beach in her climate change performance.

The transformative power of environmental art

 Environment
• October 14, 2022

Sarah Cameron Sunde’s performance art contemplates our interconnection with nature

A microscope image of a nylon stocking, showing a network of trapezoidal pink plastic fibers connected and reinforced by coils of green and yellow fibers.

A look into the plastic inside your clothes

 Plastics
• September 9, 2022

An infographic diving into three types of plastic-based fabrics and how they may be affecting our environment

Arif Ullah stands on a street corner in front of a brick wall with South Bronx Unite written in chalk on the wall

Inside a coastal community’s fight for a greener waterfront

 Environment
• July 29, 2022

The people of the South Bronx have almost no access to their own coast. South Bronx Unite’s Arif Ullah is working to change that.

People protesting climate change inaction

Does ‘climate anxiety’ belong in the DSM?

 Health
• March 21, 2022

Psychotherapists have different opinions about making climate anxiety a diagnosis

A digital illustration of a fashion model walking through a landfill filled with textile waste.

Fighting Fast Fashion

 Environment
• February 15, 2022

The mass-produced and over-consumed cycle of fast fashion has taken a serious environmental toll on the planet. But there are ways to fight back

A family of feral hogs scampers on the edge of a salt marsh in coastal Georgia where they trample cordgrass in pursuit of ribbed mussels.

Booming feral hog population threatens American salt marshes

 Environment
• January 19, 2022

Invasive pigs chow down on mussels, threatening marshes’ resilience to drought

Two draft horses standing on grass in front of a pack of cows

Adding horsepower back to sustainable farming

 Environment
• January 17, 2022

Draft power is coming back for many young farmers, as a tool and as a lifestyle

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