NY Times

At the core of New York City Pigeon Rescue Central are pigeon lovers, animal activists and eccentrics who dedicate themselves to the much-maligned birds’ welfare.

The well of Spicewood Beach in central Texas is among 13 public water systems throughout the state that are projected to run out of water in 180 days or less.

Under popular pressure, Chinese officials have begun to track the most pernicious measure of urban air pollution and promise to set new health standards and publish data on air pollution.

The Sierra Club’s president, Michael Brune, has acknowledged in a blog post that beginning five years ago, the club accepted $26 million from people connected with Chesapeake Energy.

Counting Isle Royale moose can be a tedious task that requires great dedication. But each moose has its own life story.

A coal-backed group pushes for the cancellation of a lecture by a Pennsylvania climate scientist.

In the village of Fessenheim, an aging nuclear plant stirs both protests and support over the use of nuclear power across France.

An article raises the issue of whether the Sierra Club's support of natural gas as a "bridge fuel" was influenced by donations from the gas industry.

Researchers find that extreme cold induces acute stress in coral but that heat is ultimately more lethal.

A vast majority of babies are female, but the disparity fades as a factor by the time green turtles are old enough to breed.

A new study based on research in western Australia suggests that warming seas can benefit corals -- but perhaps only to a point.

For protection, mammals generally rely on teeth, claws, muscles, keen senses or quick wits. Every so often, however, a mammalian lineage discovers the wonders of chemistry.

To aid defense contractors, researchers try to map how butterflies carry out an astonishing variety of flight maneuvers.

Fishermen from Cape Cod, Mass., to northern Maine would have to reduce the amount of cod they catch under an emergency proposal by the New England Fishery Management Council.

Two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Gulf Coast now stands to benefit as money pours in for restoration.

A disturbing look at the unremarkably horrid life of an industrial pig.

The wayward birds could not be persuaded to follow a pilot flying an ultralight plane.

Scientists denounce a proposal in Canada for killings of Atlantic gray seals, saying there is no evidence that it will cause the cod population to rebound.

Dangerously high levels have been detected in Northeastern songbirds as the most toxic form of the heavy metal moves through the food chain.

The Interior Department says that offshore wind farms pose no significant threat to the environment off the coasts of Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and Delaware. Although the department is now encouraging developers to submit applications, it is unclear whether offshore wind projects make financial sense at this time.