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

Along the Brooklyn-Queens border, 50 acres of abandoned water infrastructure have gradually transformed into a unique wetland ecosystem. What's in store for the Ridgewood Reservoir?

New York City has passed sweeping new laws to green the city’s roofs. What do they mean for residents, building owners, and birds?

In 2016, a Brooklyn artist was commissioned to design Highland Park’s first public sculpture. Four years later, much of her work — and life — now orbits around the site and its community of residents and stewards.

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

Photographers focus on the grasslands that cap the former Fresh Kills landfill and provide new homes for threatened wildlife.

We seek a writer to explore and interpret the contemporary urban landscape where highways meet gas wells, herons, and kayakers.

Photographers explore the infrastructural underpinnings of Freshkills Park.

Sociologist Colin Jerolmack explains how the inescapable pigeon can help us understand the broader systems — natural, physical, and cultural — that build our experience of the urban environment.