The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday approved an application by a Manhattan homeowner to build a gate at the front of what she called her “celebrity staircase.”…
The South African authorities said on Tuesday that they had pulled dozens of dead miners from a shuttered gold mine where they were working illegally until a blockade during which…
California has withdrawn requests that the Biden administration allow the state to enact limits on pollution from trucks, locomotives and ferries that are more strict than federal standards, on the…
(Editors note: We are continuing to cover the Los Angeles fires. Scroll down for more on the latest.) Societies have used nutrient-rich human waste as fertilizer for centuries. But sewage…
It’s too soon to know how the Los Angeles fires will change life in California, but it may heavily depend on the answer to a single question: Will a once-obscure…
A celebrated artwork by the environmental artist Mary Miss will be demolished by the museum that commissioned it. On Tuesday, the Des Moines Art Center reached an agreement with Miss,…
For the first time, the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday warned that “forever chemicals” present in sewage sludge that is used as fertilizer can pose human health risks. In an…
As the flames grew closer and closer to his home in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles and his teenage daughter pleaded with him over the phone to evacuate,…
For thousands of years, Cardea has been known as the Roman goddess of doorways and transitions, a guardian of thresholds. On Monday, she joined the celestial ranks of fellow mythological…
When a young location scout knocked on the door of 66 Perry Street in Manhattan’s West Village three decades ago, the homeowner who reluctantly agreed to allow filming on the…
