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The United States is banning the importation of four species of snakes and their eggs, the Interior Department announced Tuesday.

A federal judge has thrown out a key section of an Interior Department rule that declared global warming is threatening the survival of the polar bear.

An inquiry is under way into the treatment of suspended Arctic scientist Charles Monnett, an Interior Department official said.

The Obama administration on Tuesday struck a new deal with wildlife advocates that would require the Interior Department to consider greater protections for hundreds of imperiled animals and plants.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A federal judge has given the Interior Department a Dec. 23 deadline to explain why polar bears were listed in 2008 as a "threatened" species instead of the more-protective "endangered." The written order issued Thursday by Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S.

District Court in Washington, D.C., follows an October hearing on ...

The Interior Department is selling a new duck stamp envelope to raise money for conservation in the aftermath of the Gulf oil spill.

The Interior Department is ready to announce its analysis and review of defects in a program covering lease sales off much of Alaska's coastline, including Arctic waters, according to a legal filing Tuesday.

Three environmental groups announced Monday they intend to sue the Interior Department for not protecting sage grouse as an endangered or threatened species.

An iconic bird living in western U.S. sagebrush country faces extinction but won't be named an endangered species, the U.S.

Interior Department said Friday.

The Interior Department plans to announce whether it will pursue endangered species protection for sage grouse, a decision with major ramifications for the West's renewable energy and oil and gas industries.