EditorialLaquetta Little, left, and Alexis Smallwood-Foote, organizers of a community garden in Edgemere, a neighborhood on the Rockaway peninsula in Queens, Oct. 18, 2022. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times)
EditorialA box of wine bottles intended for return and reuse, part of a pilot program that failed primarily because customers returned so few of the bottles, at Vyne Yard in Brooklyn, May 24, 2021. (Megan Mack/The New York Times)
EditorialLynn Yeakel stands in front of a portrait of Alice Paul, who helped secure passage of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote. (Bob Horton via The New York Times)
EditorialEli Cano and Cindy Garcia, with Calpulli Mexican Dance Company, perform at Materials for the Arts? ?great dance shoe giveaway? in Queens, Feb. 21, 2022. (Lila Barth/The New York Times)
EditorialGuests at Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park, which now requires tourists, park personnel, researchers and other people encountering gorillas to wear face masks. (Skyler Bishop for Gorilla Doctors via The New York Times)
EditorialWomen gather empty bags for reuse at a buying house where diggers sell cobalt outside the city of Kolwezi, Congo, on April 24, 2021. (Ashley Gilbertson/The New York Times)
EditorialWomen gather empty bags for reuse at a buying house where diggers sell cobalt outside the city of Kolwezi, Congo, on April 24, 2021. (Ashley Gilbertson/The New York Times)