Environment

Seed libraries can restart agriculture after disasters. But what of useless plants? Two artists save the spontaneous, weedy species that serve no purpose but their own.

Climate change is real, and happening now — but exactly what that means for coastal cities is surprisingly uncertain. Engineers at Princeton’s Form Finding Lab choose flexibility over fortification to protect coastal cities from flooding.

Hidden in Central Park, the remains of a 19th century reservoir that fell out of fashion.

For Underexposed, photographer Stanley Greenberg's monthly dispatches trace the myriad paths of the city’s infrastructural networks in great breadth and close detail.

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.