Environment & Sustainability

Learn about climate change, renewable energy, and sustainable living practices. CurioAtlas brings together research and solutions shaping the future of our planet.

A win-win, animal crossings make roads safer for wildlife and people

Worldwide, roads act as both death traps and barriers for wildlife, fragmenting the landscapes animals need to survive. However, ecologists and engineers are working to “reconnect the wild” through the strategic construction of wildlife crossings. As Mongabay contributor Ben Goldfarb…

NYC Invests in Air Quality, but the Bronx Still Can’t Breathe Easy

Highways, peaker plants and commercial and industrial activity cluster in the borough. Despite projects and policies designed to help, pollution remains a problem. By Lauren Dalban NEW YORK—When Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that $20 million from the city’s congestion pricing…

How to build a highway in the age of climate change

Between the view, the marshes, and the birds, Liat Meitzenheimer concedes the drive along California State Route 37 is scenic. Still, she avoids it for two reasons: congestion and flooding. The highway, about half of which is two-lane, is often…

The tiny cell that broke a big rule of biology

For decades, Jon Zehr was haunted by an organism he knew was here — but couldn’t see. It all started in the ‘90s on a research boat in the middle of the ocean. Zehr was an oceanographer studying nitrogen-fixing bacteria —…