NYTimes - Environment

The number of migratory birds returning to New York each spring is declining because there are too many deer.

Cheap, plentiful natural gas provides utilities with little incentive to build coal-fired plants with a technology that traps carbon gas for storage or other uses.

Treece, Kan., has been torn down and may soon be erased from maps. But don’t tell that to the Busbys, who live there.

Using a remotely operated vehicle on the ocean floor, federal scientists happened upon the wreckage of a ship evoking a time when nations vied for power in the Americas.

A company opened a biofuel plant to supply ethanol to households in the Mozambican capital that rely on charcoal for cooking fuel.

An agency official said that the federal government lacked the financing to cover a cleanup of the tsunami debris washing up in Alaska and other states.

Human feeding of wild dolphins brings them into contact with anglers and their gear, and leads to increases in serious dolphin injuries and deaths.

Despite lacking bilateral symmetry, brittle stars, related to starfish, can choose one of their five limbs to be front-facing and use two others to move.

A photographer slices open a stone and finds an image reflecting our gas thirst.

The media company that accepted the conservative Heartland Institute's controversial ad about climate change rejected one rival billboard but accepted another.

Coastal erosion near Matunuck has imperiled seafront structures and threatened the only road that residents can use to get in and out.

Research that illuminated a delicate ecological chain of birds, trees, soil, plankton and manta rays inspires contemplation of the unknown circles of life that may be disrupted by human activity.

New standards for science education for the first time include sections on climate change.

The bill awaiting action by President Dilma Rousseff would effectively give amnesty to landowners who illegally deforested areas before 2008.

Congress has proposed legislation to help avoid a worldwide helium shortage, and some 30 percent of the global supply comes from a plant northwest of Amarillo.

Researchers in Sarasota Bay, Fla., test whether dolphins' heart rates change when they hear different signature whistles.

China has led the way in expanding nuclear generating capacity over the last decade.

Bangladesh, buffeted by climate change and flooding, is a prime example of a country whose fate could be determined by what happens at a conference in Rio next month.

A look at the decades-old natural gas predictions of an energy analyst with extraordinary foresight.

Science tries to keep pace with new rules setting limits on microorganisms in the ballast of ships plying American waters.