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Environment

Is New York City getting its composting program right?

Signage at a facility on New York City’s Staten Island where food and yard waste is turned into compost, preventing it from becoming a source of methane.

Heavy manufacturing turns to rooftop solar to cut costs and carbon

A warehouse building with solar panels on the rooftop.

Solar farms can be havens for rare plants. Just ask the threecorner milkvetch.

Desert plants grow among panels in the Gemini Solar Project, outside Las Vegas.

The case for giving clothing a passport

A product tag on a blue clothing shirt with QR code for product details and impact.

New materials, old physics — the science behind how your winter jacket keeps you warm

Winter jackets in a closet hanger.

Snowfall records by county

Central Park in New York city, with an accumulated 26.8 inches of snow after a blizzard.

Sustainability & Climate

15 ways to stay cool this summer without AC

Person's hands applying UV filter film on glass window

Sustainability & Climate

What hurricane season was like the year you were born

A train underwater, a beach road destroyed after a storm and a figure watching palm trees bend in the waves and wind.

Sustainability & Climate

The 'king of poisons' is building up in rice

A villager works in the rice field near the Chaohu Lake in the town of Huailin, Chaohu City in China.

Sustainability & Climate

The fix for parched Western states: Recycled toilet water

The director of water re-use operations for startup Epic Cleantec holds up a sample of treated water.