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The federal government has announced an exciting NIMBY project. It will put nature in millions of backyards by establishing Canada's first urban National Park in the country's largest urban area.

The federal government has failed to take into account the cumulative environmental impacts of oilsands projects due to a lack of baseline data and the absence of regular monitoring, Canada's environment commissioner said Tuesday in a report tabled in Parliament.

An endangered frog that lives only in Mississippi would have a lot more hopping room under the latest proposal from the federal government.

A rediscovered San Francisco plant once thought to be extinct is being proposed for the federal government's list of endangered species.

The federal government has awarded a $3.5 million grant to Washington state, which will use the money to help protect habitat for 20 at-risk species in north-central Washington's Methow Valley.

The federal government has removed the Lake Erie watersnake from its list of endangered and threatened species, saying the reptile has recovered.

Fuglvog signed the plea agreement with the federal government April 8, but it was only made public Monday in U.S.

District Court records, as first reported by the Alaska Dispatch.

Over the past century, as developers of the Florida Keys gobbled up pristine real estate, the federal government created four refuges along the island chain to protect wildlife and preserve habitat.

The federal government has agreed to draft a recovery plan for an endangered parrot with a historical range that included Arizona and New Mexico.

The federal government on Friday proposed listing two seals that depend on sea ice as threatened species because of the projected loss of ice from climate warming.