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New York City Ready to Expand Greenways Along Rivers, Railways and Parks

Community organizers say the multi-use paths protected from vehicle traffic can connect the city’s boroughs and help increase climate resilience as rainfall, flooding and storms all become more intense.

By Judah Duke

 People walk along the High Line, an old rail line that was converted to an elevated park and greenway in Manhattan. Credit: Sergi Reboredo/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
On Feb. 27, About 100 people marched from the New York Public Library’s flagship location in midtown Manhattan to the headquarters of three insurance companies. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

‘Insure Our Future:’ A Global Movement Says the Insurance Industry Could Be the Key to Ending Fossil Fuels

By Keerti Gopal
A fracked-methane gas pipeline under construction in Peekskill, N.Y. Credit: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images

A Firm Planning a Drilling Spree in New York’s Southern Tier Goes Silent as Lawmakers Seek to Ban Use of CO2 in Quest for Gas

By Peter Mantius
A pedestrians walks by trash bags piled on a street in Manhattan. High Acres gets about 90 percent of its waste by train from New York City. Credit: Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images

In New York, a Legal Debate Over the State’s New Green Amendment

By Peter Mantius
A boat transporting recycling waste sails on the Upper New York Bay between Staten Island and Manhattan on Dec 29, 2023. Credit: Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images

Environmental Groups Eye a Potential Win with New York Packaging Bill

By James Bruggers
Fossil Free Divest NY, in coordination with community members, rally outside the office of the New York State Comptroller in New York City on May 14, 2018. Credit: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images

New York State Restricts Investments in ExxonMobil, But Falls Short of Divestment

By Nicholas Kusnetz
New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, manager of the state’s Common Retirement Fund, speaks after successful re-election in New York City on Nov. 9, 2022. Credit: Lev Radin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Will New York State Divest From Big Oil?

By Nicholas Kusnetz
An air source heat pump repairman from Valiant replaces a Wilo pump inside an air source heat pump unit at a house in Folkestone, United Kingdom on Dec. 23, 2021. Credit: Andrew Aitchison/In pictures via Getty Images

Why a State-Led Coalition to Install More Heat Pumps Is a Big Deal for Climate Change

By Kristoffer Tigue
Workers in front of the Cricket Valley Power Plant in Wingdale, New York. Southern Tier Solutions wants to build up to a dozen new natural gas-fueled power plants in the state. Credit: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images

Plan for Gas Drilling Spree in New York’s Southern Tier Draws Muted Response from Regulators, But Outrage From Green Groups

By Peter Mantius
Plug Power's plant under construction at the Science, Technology and Advanced Manufacturing Park, or STAMP, in Genesee County, New York. Credit: Photo courtesy of the Genesee County Economic Development Center

As New York Officials Push Clean Hydrogen Project, Indigenous Nation Sees a Threat to Its Land

By Nicholas Kusnetz
A car drives by a home with a nearby derrick drilling for natural gas near Calvert, Pennsylvania. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.

Research by Public Health Experts Shows ‘Damning’ Evidence on the Harms of Fracking

By Jon Hurdle
Climate protesters block the doors to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Monday as an NYPD police officer with the strategic Response Group, which specializes in large demonstrations, crowd control, and major events, center, watches over the demonstrators and another officer arrests a protester, left. Credit: Keerti Gopal

More Than 100 Protesters Arrested in New York City While Calling on the Federal Reserve to End Fossil Fuel Financing

By Keerti Gopal
Police officers saw the PVC pipe off Sophie Shepherd's arm that connected her with other demonstrators blocking access to the East Hampton Town Airport. Shepherd is an organizer with Planet Over Profit who said she was a "rule follower" before she started risking arrest in climate demonstrations. Credit: Keerti Gopal

New York Activists Descend on the Hamptons to Protest the Super Rich Fueling the Climate Crisis

By Keerti Gopal

California and New York Could Miss Their 2030 Climate Targets. Could Permitting Reform Help?

By Kristoffer Tigue
Jason Smith, the New York Restoration Project's director of northern parks, who has worked at Swindler Cove since 2006: “This is one of the most vulnerable neighborhoods in northern Manhattan.” Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News.

This Northern Manhattan Wetland Has Faced Climate-Change Induced Erosion and Sea Level Rise. A Living Shoreline Has Reimagined the Space

By Juanita Gordon
In a file photo, a sign reads "Heat Alert" and warns drivers and pedestrians about excessive heat in Chicago. Credit: Tim Boyle/Getty Images.

New York, LA, Chicago and Houston, the Nation’s Four Largest Cities, Are Among Those Hardest Hit by Heat Islands

By Aydali Campa
The Pleasant Village Community Garden, at Pleasant Avenue between 118th & 119th Streets in East Harlem, New York City. Credit: Kim Yim

As East Harlem Waits for Infrastructure Projects to Mitigate Flood Risk, Residents Are Creating Their Own Solutions

By Juanita Gordon
Michele Klimczak, the coastal debris coordinator for the Fishers Island Conservancy, sits in front of a day’s haul of garbage, nearly 150 lbs, collected over a few hours on a Fishers Island, New York beach. She weighs and records the trash she collects, the record of which is available to view on https://www.ficonservancy.org/

The ‘Sisyphus of Trash’ Struggles to Clean Relentless Waves of Plastic From a New York Island’s Beaches

By Devin Speak
Roundup, the world's top weedkiller: Credit: Photo Illustration by Scott Olson/Getty Images.

Roundup Weedkiller Manufacturers to Pay $6.9 Million in False Advertising Settlement

By Liza Gross

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