Planet A Magazine

Water, Waste, Health, Wildlife—16 climate stories of our time

  • Channeling the Flow of Nature

    Channeling the Flow of Nature

    Madam Brett Dam in Beacon, New York. Luwa Elena Yin The hard work of removing obsolete dams from Hudson River tributaries. By Luwa Elena Yin George Jackman often goes into the hills in the Hudson Valley to walk on the trails that stretch along the slopes. Some are particularly rough, covered with tree branches sticking…

  • Glass Warfare

    Glass Warfare

    Tina Li with her bird-rescue toolkit. Hypatia Wu  A group of volunteers is working to track and prevent the murder of migratory birds. Hypatia Wu Every Friday morning during the two bird migration seasons in New York City—from mid-April to early June for the spring migration and from late August to early November for the…

  • Kelp Me, Kelp You

    Kelp Me, Kelp You

    As the corporate clamor for carbon-capturing crops grows louder, a Brooklyn kelp farm tries to find the balance between building community and cashing in.

  • A Lifetime in the Meadowlands

    A Lifetime in the Meadowlands

    For centuries, people have tried to control the water in New Jersey’s Meadowlands. But the water has always prevailed.

  • Gardens in the Sky

    Gardens in the Sky

    Green Roof on Javits Center. Miho Ouyou Green roofs could help manage stormwater in New York City. But will anyone install them? Miho Ouyou Nature Girl was Inger Yancey’s nickname. Growing up, she and her friends would each point their fingers at different parts of trees, calling them their “offices” under the bright sunlight in…

  • Hot In Here

    Hot In Here

    As hip hop turns 50, a museum rising in the Bronx offers a window into the genre’s mostly hidden—and deeply complex—history with climate change.