The material flows that feed Manhattan's iconic public spaces reveal "reciprocal landscapes" whose fates are tied together by fertilizer, pavers, and planks.

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.

Following the trail of New York City’s municipal solid waste from curbside pickup to sites far beyond its borders, two artists document a system that benefits from low visibility as it dramatically extends the city’s footprint.

By way of natural disaster and human folly, a staggering amount of marine debris litters the waters and shores of an important estuary habitat. Meet the volunteers trying to salvage the situation.

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

For an equal shot at competitive sports in New York City public high schools, students and teachers fight to untangle the knot of race and space.

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

In the middle of a paved Midtown park, tunnel air whirs through 46 huge fans.

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?

In West Harlem, a wastewater treatment plants hides beneath a 28-acre state park.