By Patrick Rogers After South Beach, Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood is the city’s epicenter of color and creativity. The low-slung postindustrial landscape just north of Miami’s downtown is an Instagrammer’s paradise—block after block of warehouses covered with vivid murals by some of the world’s greatest street artists, among them Kenny Scharf, Shepard Fairey and Maya Hayuk. […]
Environmentalists spoke out against President Donald Trump‘s State Department after it found “no significant environmental impacts” in its review of TransCanada’s long-gestating Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline. The alternative route approved by Nebraska regulators in November would have “minor to moderate” impacts from its construction and operation, according to the 300-page draft report released Monday. It […]
By Patrick Rogers The rooftop garden of the Swiss Institute Contemporary Art gallery in New York looks much like you’d expect of a newly renovated former bank building in lower Manhattan. Rows of simple aluminum planters line the small rectangular space, sprouting leafy greenery that frames views of the busy streets below. Yet this ordinary-looking […]
By Jason Bittel It’s official: Animals around the world are sick of our sh . . . enanigans. After looking at 62 mammal species on six continents, a recent study published in Science found that 83 percent of these species are doing more and more of their business in the dark rather than deal with […]
By Courtney Lindwall The hyper-partisan farm bill, narrowly passed by the House of Representatives last week, contains dangerous handouts to the chemical industry and Big Ag. If enacted in its current state, the bill would have serious ramifications for small farmers, biodiversity, public health and America’s hungry. Leaders in the Senate are promising a better […]
By Pierre Delforge A new report bolsters the case for widespread electrification of heat and hot water in buildings. The report by the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) finds that replacing onsite use of fossil fuels in buildings by efficient and flexible electric heating is a key component of the deep decarbonization necessary to limit […]
Below is a transcript of the video. Rebecca Riley, senior attorney, NRDC: Right now, we’re in a real crisis when it comes to bees. Every year, about a third of our honeybee colonies collapse. And the 4,000 native bee species in the United States suffer from those same threats that honeybees do. Those are species […]
By Becca Cudmore “Oregon State Police, this is Andrew,” said the dispatcher covering Oregon’s wildlife TIP (Turn In Poachers) line. It was mid-May, and Andrew Tuttle was prepared to answer a call on the latest deer wandering around with an arrow through her skull, or possibly a dynamited trout. (Salmon and steelhead were running upriver […]
By Jason Bittel Imagine if safari-goers in Africa came upon an elephant trudging through the brush covered in a tangle of ropes and netting. What if, on closer inspection, they found that the animal’s mouth was blocked, preventing it from eating, or that lengths of rope had coiled around and cut into its legs, making […]
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