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.

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

With New York City on the verge of reorganizing the private sanitation industry, union organizer Allan Henry connects the dots between street safety, worker rights, and environmental impacts.

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.

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.

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.

A photo essay documenting what will become Freshkills's East Park shows that new life can emerge from the most toxic environments.