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Winona Quigley stands in the frame in her denim coveralls, folding and holding taut a piece of cream colored fabric over a plastic covered workbench. A large stainless steel pot and a large tub of blue detergent sit on the far end of the work bench.

Draped in the colors of the Earth

 Environment
• August 19, 2022

The textile industry has largely left behind traditional methods of dyeing. Winona Quigley is working to change that

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.

Wildlife rehabilitator Tristan Higginbotham holds a small ovenbird

Making the city that never sleeps safer for birds

 Environment
• July 7, 2022

New York City is at the center of a political fight over dimming nighttime lights that attract and kill migrating birds

Gopher frog squats on ground with golden and brown spots

While humans battle COVID-19, frogs fight their own epidemic

 Environment
• June 24, 2022

Amphibians battle against pathogens, wildlife trade and changing habitats

A gif of Hunga Tonga's eruption, as seen from space. A massive grey cloud of ash emerges from the middle of the ocean.

The hidden power of submarine volcanoes

 Environment
• May 23, 2022

In January, an underwater volcano in Tonga produced the biggest eruption the world has seen in decades. Why was the blast so intense?

A Western chimp family in Bossou forest of Guinea

Yet another road to this great ape’s extinction

 Environment
• April 8, 2022

Road expansion in West Africa is threatening the critically endangered western chimpanzee population

A lineman is working at the top of an electric wire pole while a colleague stands below in the snow.

Prophet of the polar vortex

 Environment
• March 21, 2022

Jennifer Francis was one of the first climate scientists to connect a warmer Arctic with severe winter weather further south

Three actors waist deep in the Hudson River wearing cardboard cutouts shaped like oyster shells.

Climate change on the global stage

 Environment
• March 8, 2022

Eco-theater offers an outlet for creative expression and scientific communication

Floating walkways and nets make up the fish farm in the Pacific Ocean.

2022 could be the beginning of the end for open-net fish farms in Canada

 Environment
• February 25, 2022

A federal mandate to phase out open-net fish farms and the announced closure of a hatchery signal the practice is on its way out

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 disgruntled cat peaks out from an open cellar door on a NYC sidewalk.

Everybody wants to help a cat

 Environment
• February 3, 2022

People across New York City care for tens of thousands of feral cats while also working to reduce their population

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

Mossy peatlands interspersed with still water

Protecting nature’s best carbon sink: Peatlands

 Environment
• January 7, 2022

Rising temperatures and development threaten Earth’s peat; without it, our climate would warm even faster

An illustration of sediment core drilling in the Antarctic for a NASA study into ancient climate change.

Ancient ocean sediment carries a dire warning for modern climate

 Environment
• December 17, 2021

Climate change sped up the collapse of the Mayan civilization, but our climate is changing even faster

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