Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island, New York, was the subject of a struggle over where to dispose of the waste of a city strapped for space. While the landfill was closed in 2001, the events of 9/11 and the need to clear the large amounts of rubble and human remains from the site of the Twin Towers attack turned Fresh Kills into hallowed ground, which posed new questions about the future of the site.
The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Park has experienced an infestation of emerald ash borer beetles. In October 2010 the National Park Service began for a tree replacement program to revitalize the park.
Eric Rutkow shows that trees were essential to the early years of the republic and indivisible from the country’s rise as both an empire and a civilization.
Green Versus Gold examines California’s environmental history, ranging from its Native American past to conflicts and movements of recent decades.
A first attempt at including natural assets into Italian art preservation legislation.
The landscape designers Vaux and Olmsted draft plans for New York City’s “Central Park,” a space in which to escape the city’s noise, pollution, and crowding.
Today’s Royal National Park, which lies south of Sydney, is Australia’s first explicitly designated national park.
The first nature reserve in Java, Indonesia, is established on the Krakatau volcanic island.
