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Photo of Plus Pool Light, a cross-shaped bouy

Plus Pool floats a light sculpture to raise awareness of NYC’s water pollution problem

October 17, 2019

Photo of the Gowanus Canal waterway in Brooklyn

Pollution Resolution

EPA rejects tunnel plan for Gowanus Canal cleanup, says tanks will happen

September 27, 2019

Columbia professor Anthony Acciavatti on the technical engineering of India’s sacred river

July 12, 2018

Rendering of a plastic rock on the beach

T+E+A+M simulates natural processes to make spectacularly synthetic materials

May 21, 2018

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Gowanus Gondolas

The Gowanus Canal is being cleaned up for the first time in its long, polluted life

October 16, 2017

(Louis Vest/Flickr)

Harvey’s danger lives on in the threat of petrochemical pollution

September 8, 2017

Explore this interactive map of the Gowanus Canal’s slightly scary microbiology

April 14, 2016

Triptyque unveils São Paulo’s minhocão garden viaduct plans

April 4, 2016

Oslo plans to make its city center free from cars in four years

October 27, 2015

Milan hops on the car-banning bandwagon with its own proposal to create zones of “pedestrian privilege”

July 24, 2015

Bike to work without the smog: the Clean Ride Mapper helps Canadian cyclists find quieter, less polluted bike routes

June 24, 2015

This Ocean Cleanup system runs virtually without power, hopes to clean up half the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 10 years

June 15, 2015