A Garden at Ground Zero
Even with harsh winds and little sunlight 10 stories above Broadway, you can beat the elements if you are persistent — and clever enough.
Even with harsh winds and little sunlight 10 stories above Broadway, you can beat the elements if you are persistent — and clever enough.
How many tons of emissions can we trim in the new year?
Imagine what we could do with our money, and hours, if we set our phones aside for a year.
My dysfunctional, anxiety-ridden search for a climate-safe Adirondack haven
After catastrophe, a garden was my way out
Keeping a food relationship with the sea has its merits
Two weeks of driving on electric reshaped my ideas about the City
The long-term needs of ecosystems should come before our knee-jerk expectations about infrastructure
A sustainable food and wine tour of the Erie Canal with no flight required
Excerpted from Goodbye Phone, Hello World
iQuit. So can you. Excerpted from Goodbye Phone, Hello World
Test driving a solar oven
What going vegan for a year did for cardiovascular health
An Ohio farmer and a Louisiana fisherman discuss a better future for land and sea
Hunkered down during COVID with a few fragile survivors of the devastating American chestnut plague
A look back at how I became a science writer (and not a scientist)
How one of the healthiest diets in the world really works
Beatrice Ughi and Gustiamo
A shout out to Donald Junior to stop Pebble Mine (with Mark Kurlansky, Carl Safina and John Waldman)
Mussels, and why they're so environmentally sexy
A last ditch argument for not destroying Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market
Exploring Quebec in winter on the slopes and at the table
Restoring salmon to the Adirondack's Boquet River
What should you think when your favorite fish goes missing?
What fish oil is doing to our health and the planet
Opinion essay excerpted from The Omega Principle
Pebble Mine and the fight for Bristol Bay
Climbing New York's highest peak as a child and as a father
A biologist traced mercury from a company spill to contamination in songbirds, and devised a new way to hold polluters financially accountable
Agricultural runoff is a major threat to our nation's lakes and rivers
The omegas battle it out in our budgets and our bodies
Cutting NOAA hurts American fishermen and aquaculturists
A fish-blocking dam comes down in Connecticut
Local sushi is harder than you think
From a regulatory perspective "natural" means nothing
New genes aren't the only weird thing about US salmon
The fish travels of a father and son
Exploring Puglia by bike
Home in Manhattan, dreaming of Martha's Vineyard surf