News & Commentary

This Start-Up Has Figured Out How to Turn Diesel Pollution Into Art

December 20, 2017 PerspectivesUnited StatesClara Chaisson

Graviky Labs keeps air pollution from entering our lungs by capturing carbon and turning it into ink.

Beauty and Despair Collide in These Murals of the Great Lakes

December 5, 2017 PerspectivesUnited StatesClara Chaisson

Alexis Rockman’s new series creates a vision of the lakes’ past, present, and future that sparks imagination while addressing stark realities.

Would More People Ride the Bus if It Looked and Felt Like a Train?

November 17, 2017 PerspectivesUnited StatesJeff Turrentine

Bus rapid transit has gone totally off the rails.

A Hospice for Hemlocks? An Art Installation Wrestles with the Loss of an Iconic Tree

November 9, 2017 PerspectivesEast, United StatesClara Chaisson

Massachusetts’s Harvard Forest is in mourning as invasive insects kill eastern hemlocks all along the Atlantic Seaboard.

The Anthropocene, as Muse

October 26, 2017 PerspectivesUnited StatesClara Chaisson

Humans are changing the earth at an unprecedented scale. Justin Brice Guariglia thinks today’s art needs to reflect that.

A Rescued Tiger Cub? Mating Mollusks? A Thieving Fox? One of These Images Could Bring Home the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award.

September 28, 2017 PerspectivesUnited StatesClara Chaisson

From playful animal behavior to pollution and poaching, these artists capture the state of nature in 2017.

Mass Transit: The Crucial Ingredient in the Recipe for a Boomtown

September 22, 2017 PerspectivesCaliforniaJeff Turrentine

How a single light-rail stop transformed a sleepy L.A. suburb into a vibrant, buzzing business hub.

If Now’s Not the Time to Talk About Climate Change, When Is?

September 15, 2017 PerspectivesUnited StatesJeff Turrentine

A nation serious about mitigating natural disasters like the ones we’ve just seen can’t afford to let this moment slip away.

Pigeons Experimenting with Cosplay—and Other Signs the End Is Near

September 14, 2017 PerspectivesUnited StatesClara Chaisson

Artist Laurel Roth Hope stitches costumes to disguise ubiquitous birds as extinct species.

Turning to the Landfill to Make Fine Art

August 30, 2017 PerspectivesInternationalClara Chaisson

Mbongeni Buthelezi “paints” with plastic—and the results are stunning.

Americans Red and Blue Unite Against Trump's Plan to Drill the Atlantic

August 28, 2017 PerspectivesEast, United StatesJeff Turrentine

Not even the Republican governors who supported him are willing to get behind it.

Witness the Larsen C Ice Shelf’s Breakup—in Downtown Chicago?

August 16, 2017 PerspectivesChicagoClara Chaisson

A public art installation by Luftwerk puts Antarctica’s climate change woes at the center of urban life.

Meet the Fish That Builds Works of Love on the Seafloor

August 4, 2017 PerspectivesUnited StatesClara Chaisson

Who knew the unassuming male pufferfish is one of nature’s greatest artists?

The Border Wall Is Underway . . . Right in the Middle of a Wildlife Refuge

July 28, 2017 PerspectivesWest, United StatesJeff Turrentine

Trump’s already offensive wall will also endanger an already endangered species.

Meet the Aboriginal Community Turning Abandoned Fishing Gear into Art

July 21, 2017 PerspectivesInternationalClara Chaisson

On Australia’s Cape York Peninsula, artists weave deadly “ghost nets” into totems.

With a Few Creative Touches, Pollution Masks Become Symbols of Hope

July 12, 2017 PerspectivesUnited StatesClara Chaisson

Maskbook invites people around the world to express their environmental anxieties.

New Yorkers, Meet the Neighbors You Never Knew You Had

June 8, 2017 PerspectivesNew York CityClara Chaisson

A public photography exhibit at Brooklyn Bridge Park introduces city dwellers to the amazing marine life of the New York Bight.

In These Paintings, the Earth Gets Tagged Out

May 11, 2017 PerspectivesLos Angeles, United StatesClara Chaisson

Josh Keyes’s images of graffitied wilderness reflect a profound sense of environmental anxiety.

An Artist Envisions Our National Parks in 2050

April 26, 2017 PerspectivesUnited StatesClara Chaisson

Hannah Rothstein’s grim tourism posters are a call to action, in a time when the president is pillaging our public lands.

Climate Deniers Seize the Day!

April 14, 2017 PerspectivesUnited StatesJeff Turrentine

With funding from the fossil-fuel industry, a denialist think tank is mailing its anti-science propaganda to 200,000 schoolteachers. Hmmm, what could be behind their newfound boldness?