The number of migratory birds returning to New York each spring is declining ? because of deer.

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

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

After decades of fights, California?s chief coastal regulator approved a scaled-back development plan on Wednesday by a Clint Eastwood-backed group on a swath of real estate covered by rare Monterey pines.

Botanist and urban ecologist Marielle Anzelone describes scene in Corson's Brook Woods on Staten Island as flowers bloom and birds make their spring appearances. Photo