Our world in photos: July 14
July 14, 2026
See photos from around the world featuring sports, protests, culture, environmental issues and major global events.
See photos from around the world featuring sports, protests, culture, environmental issues and major global events.
Brooklyn-based Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation and Queens-based ReCycle for Education have partnered to launch the initiative,
It’s easy to think of recycling as the solution, but the vast majority of plastic waste now ends up in landfills, or worse.
Hazardous disposal vapes are everywhere and can’t go in the garbage. These New Yorkers have made it their mission to lay them to rest.
FEEDING NEW YORK STATE HAS COLLECTED A RECORD 63 MILLION POUNDS OF FOOD as part of the state’s Food Donation and Food Scraps Recycling Law.
People overestimate recycling’s impact and underestimate high-emission actions like flying, driving and home energy use.
At Tyler Malek’s ice cream parlors, one cook’s trash is another chef’s frosty treat. The head ice cream maker at the Portland, Oregon-based Salt &
Cigarettes are America’s most littered item. It’s causing a crisis in large American cities; the ashtrays once found outside of public buildings and select spaces in schools and airports are
More than two dozen statewide advocates and business leaders are cautioning lawmakers against hastily-written legislation introduced at the 11th hour that would snatch defeat from the jaws of victory when it
TO THE EDITOR: Let us celebrate Earth Day April 22nd all year long. Besides recycling newspapers, magazines, glass, plastics, old medicines, paints and cleaning materials, there are other actions you
From a small warehouse space in the Brooklyn Army Terminal, the New York-based company Fabscrap is hoping to change the way the fashion industry recycles. Fabscrap collects, sorts and recycles
A Brooklyn industrialist has big plans for a forgotten little park. John Quadrozzi Jr., president of GBX–Gowanus Bay Terminal, hopes to bring back the days of Brooklyn’s equestrian glory —
Less than a month after plastic bags were banned in New York, environmentalists are turning their attention to another pollutant: single-use plastic bottles. Thousands of volunteers with water nonprofit Riverkeeper
In New York City, where garbage cans overflow with water bottles and coffee cups, and plastic bags that once carried takeout get stuck in tree branches, recycling practices have a
A group of New York City councilmembers will be sponsoring the city’s first-ever Styrofoam collection event across all five boroughs, emphasizing the importance of recycling. The free event, which is
Starting tonight at 7 p.m., the Department of Sanitation will resume limited collection throughout the city with an emphasis on Monday recycling material. Residents whose Monday recycling was not collected
Several Brooklyn advocacy and nonprofit groups are part of a coalition taking part in BYOBag Week from September 15 through 21, challenging New Yorkers to stop using single-use plastic and
Several Brooklyn advocacy and nonprofit groups are part of a coalition taking part in BYOBag Week from September 15 through 21, challenging New Yorkers to stop using single-use plastic and
The views from the bridge and viewing platform are breathtaking: the waters of Upper New York Bay lapping against the Sunset Park and Red Hook waterfronts, the ferries and boats
If you love your plastic and paper bags, then you might want to stockpile them at home for ready re-use because several city councilmembers have teamed up to push for
Next Saturday, March 16, will be the annual electronics recycling event in Park Slope, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., in front of the Key Food at Fifth Avenue and