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?

Getting to the bottom of a mysterious streak of purple cropping up along Manhattan’s eastern edge.

Buildings are responsible for two thirds of greenhouse gas emissions in New York City. Can tenants, landlords, and environmentalists finally get together to make them more efficient?

From deadly explosions to silent climate warming emissions, the contemporary troubles of the city's gas infrastructure have roots in the tumult surrounding its installation more than a century ago.

Residents recall a decade of upheaval in the East New York Oral History Project.

Paint-scribbled sigils mark the spots where pipes bear natural gas — more now than ever — to stove tops and turbines. But what does this trend mean for public safety and climate change?

Where do the street trees come from, and where does the compost go? Rikers Island was the city’s growing outpost for years. But does “greening” the prison always improve things for prisoners?

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