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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

Marlowe Starling • 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 wide image photograph of la plaza cultural, where you can see a scraggly tree arched over the koi pond, with a gazebo in the distance and the city peaking out from behind the foliage.

Compost, the stuff of life

Environment

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

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

Allison Parshall • 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.

A photograph from inside the Ukrainian Museum; a white-and-red traditional Ukrainian dress stands in the middle, flanked by other Ukrainian artwork hanging on the walls.

Resilience and rebirth on display at the Ukrainian Museum

Daniel Leonard • July 27, 2022

Manhattan’s East Village is home to a neighborhood known as “Little Ukraine.” We sought to learn more about Ukrainian culture by visiting the neighborhood’s central museum

Ellen is teaching knitting to a volunteer in her shop

A warm, fuzzy therapy

Health

Huanjia Zhang • January 20, 2022

Using knitting to heal, one stitch at a time

Eight dried plant specimens from the NYBG Herbarium, laid out in a grid

Plants of the past, research of the future

Environment

Casey Crownhart • November 16, 2021

The herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden is a resource for scientists looking for new ways to study plants

How does recycling using enzymes work?

Tech

Casey Crownhart • February 4, 2021

Enzymatic recycling might offer a new method of recycling water bottles and other plastics, researchers say

Growing number of whales return to New York City shores

Video

Jonathan Moens • August 13, 2020

Clean waters have attracted large marine mammals to feed on a rising source of plankton and fish

Text of "Green New Deal" overlaid over a hand-drawn picture of trees, a mountain to the left, and a bird flying in the sky.

Can the Green New Deal overcome the New Deal’s legacy of racism?

Video

Curtis Segarra and Lili Pike • April 3, 2020

The Green New Deal draws inspiration from Roosevelt’s sweeping reforms of the 1930s, but today’s policymakers are trying to find more equitable solutions to the climate crisis