Environment

Three supers of three very different buildings get into the nitty gritty of their work, helping us understand what it might take to make the city's ambitious Zero Waste vision a reality.

Four tales of the cities that arise from moral and environmental disaster. Can we ever really start anew?

A photo essay documenting what will become Freshkills's East Park shows that new life can emerge from the most toxic environments.

For our Typecast series, Henry Grabar visits Canarsie, where long rows of attached brick houses defy traditional flood-proofing elevation. Could rising flood insurance premiums pose a greater immediate threat to homeowners than rising sea levels?

When Russell Jacobs started identifying trees, he found history, conflict, and company in an overlooked component of the streetscape.

Landscape architect David Seiter explains to ecologist Timon McPhearson why he loves weeds — and why you should too.

Allison Henry explores seven proposals for the future of the Gowanus Canal.

As a pit deepens in Chile, a pile rises in New York City. Dan Adams and Marie Law Adams chart the story of New York's relationship with one mineral — from explosions on a faraway salt flat, across oceans, and to its landing in a dynamic mountain on Staten Island's North Shore.

The chemist who monitors gas and liquids produced by the world's largest landfill touts the benefits of harvesting environmental hazards and the monitoring system with aviation roots that gives him eyes across thousands of acres.

Jason Vollen walks us through the many processes and benefits — health, environmental, and economic — behind the installation of novel plant wall technology in the City's new Bronx-based Public Safety Answering Center.