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Environment
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Jenaye Johnson • 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
Lori Youmshajekian • August 14, 2023
Unless researchers can pull off a genetic rescue, the triple-whammy of warmer temperatures, oxygen-starved waters and a newly discovered parasite may soon obliterate the few survivors
Gwendolyn Rak • August 7, 2023
Meet Joe Hollins, the recently retired veterinarian who cared for a record-breaking 190-year-old tortoise named Jonathan in his remote island home
Emily Driehaus • July 24, 2023
Efforts to restore candy darter populations are underway, but their genes live on in other fish and raise thorny questions for conservation biologists
Ellyn Lapointe • May 18, 2023
For all of kelp’s potential benefits to people and the planet, its success will depend on cultural shifts
Marlowe Starling • 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
Gina Jiménez • April 4, 2023
Scientists are unraveling air pollution's effects on mental health
Meryl Phair • March 18, 2023
The New York Mycological Society is a “mushroom club for anyone”
Timmy Broderick • February 20, 2023
Delayed evacuation orders and a dearth of Spanish-language weather programming left many in the Hispanic community unprepared
Madison Goldberg • February 10, 2023
Scientists say the "ghost dams" scattered throughout the country's waterways pose ecological risks
Lori Youmshajekian • February 1, 2023
Millions of pumpkins end up in landfills every Halloween season, but there’s a better alternative
Maiya Focht • November 3, 2022
Tucked away in the East Village of Manhattan sits La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez, a symbol of community resilience and dedication to greenspace
Meryl Phair • October 14, 2022
Sarah Cameron Sunde’s performance art contemplates our interconnection with nature
Delaney Dryfoos • September 1, 2022
The fragile estuary is also a vital food source for New Yorkers, including Asian Americans, suffering during the pandemic
Niranjana Rajalakshmi • August 26, 2022
Decades after the last Indian cheetah was killed, 36 will soon be imported from Africa. Conservationists aren’t sure it will work