Environment

Urban agriculture today extends from small community gardens to commercial hydroponics. New York City seeks to cultivate its many benefits.

Organized labor navigates a changing climate as power plants transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

At a West Village Co-Op, the resident manager gets the building — and its residents — ready for rising waters and new climate mandates.

Herbs and berries are free for the picking along the Bronx River Foodway. But the public place for foraging is also a pathway to stronger connections with local ecologies and community self-determination.

There is no shortage of work for a member of IBEW Local 3: shoring up building systems to withstand flooding and preparing for an electrification boom.

A seafood purveyor builds a sustainable business amidst rising and heating oceans and insatiable demand.

An artist makes her books by walking. Their pages unfold in ways as unusual and idiosyncratic as the city itself.

On the voids storms and plans leave behind, and what we do with them.

New projects are bringing more people and attention to the Rockaway Peninsula, but ten years after Hurricane Sandy, the work of building resilient infrastructure remains woefully incomplete.