Landscape

Thousands of new rain gardens are soaking up stormwater across the city. As green infrastructure settles into the sidewalk, can we learn to love a sewer?

For activists, scientists, and designers, images from the river's past hold the key to imagining its future.

Two hundred years of environmental change have meant both destruction and conservation of the most interesting river in America.

An artist and a historian talk trees: What they mean, and what it takes to get city-dwellers to see them clearly.

What’s lost when the value of city trees is reduced to the “environmental services” they provide?

With so much of value under threat from rising seas and flooding rains, recent books reconsider our relation to the water’s edge.

To secure New York City’s pipeline for local food, treat produce like tap water: Protect the source.

Density and displacement aren’t just problems for the living.

With natural gas dependency on the rise, thousands of miles of pipe connect New York City to a vast and dangerous geography of extraction.

Our inaugural Urban Wild Writer in Residence reports from the four mounds of the future Freshkills Park.