Heat waves are increasingly dangerous for those without water, shade and air-conditioning.

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Erik J. Larson thinks about “Mindless: The Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” which traces Robert Skidelsky’s philosophical reckoning with AI, automation, and the illusion of...

The downtown mall was long considered a thriving retail anchor, while the suburban-style one was an afterthought. They had a surprising role reversal.

And how do we get them back?

Some years ago I published a book called New York City of Trees. On facing pages of photographs and text, it presented portraits of fifty-five trees in

Parks like the High Line have a dramatic effect on the temperature of the city around them.

A new book charts how the discipline transcended humble origins and turned into something more ambitious, and more conflicted.

The influential musician and producer ponders the nature of human creativity.

The Agriculture Department said it would begin the process of rolling back protections for nearly 59 million roadless acres of the National Forest System.

Trump's "big beautiful bill" puts millions of acres in the West at risk

But even places with bag policies are seeing a greater prevalence of plastic bags on beaches and riverbanks.

Percy Zvomuya travels to South Africa and Zimbabwe in search of Esther Mahlangu and the makers of Ndebele art

Prehistoric humans didn’t create art and architecture out of nothing. They took inspiration from the nonhuman world

In his new book, David Rieff mourns a lost ideal.

As it aims to be more welcoming, the institution will remove a forbidding wall to open up Damrosch Park.

Palantir’s rise reflects the direction liberal democracies are taking: toward automated judgment and algorithmic inference—and toward control, streamlined, scalable, surgical.

The fight over beach access is unlikely to end in Florida, where growing populations and eroding beaches create arguments over invisible lines in the sand.