Environment

New York City's street trees help cool pavement, filter air, buffer against storms, and improve moods. The arborists of NYC Parks are working to distribute those benefits as widely as possible.

Through a new, interactive podcast, an artist surfaces the intimate stories and complex connections that bind New York City residents to the land and people who provide their water.

People love a place with “good light.”

A fellowship program to empower new, fearless, and diverse voices to challenge the ways we understand, design, and develop our cities.

With a mandate to decarbonize the city’s building stock, how can New Yorkers reconcile a transition to so-called clean energy with the environmental and cultural impacts of extraction beyond the city’s borders?

After a historic oil spill and an unprecedented financial settlement, a Brooklyn community oversees its ecological repair.

In works from digital dérives to a floating opera, artists bring new perspectives to New York City's most damaged environments.

Announcing the launch of a campaign to create a new fellowship program empowering fearless and diverse voices to challenge the ways we design, plan, and develop our cities.