Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A swamp on the Georgia-Florida border has been named one of America’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2023. Nonprofit organization ...

What happens when a community’s quest for survival clashes with the fate of one of the world's most unique ecosystems? In rural Georgia, the Okefenokee Swamp is at the center of a tense debate.

SAVANNAH, Ga.SAVANNAH, Ga. — A company’s plan to mine minerals near the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp and its federally protected wildlife refuge neared final approval Friday as Georgia regulators ...

An 11-foot alligator’s remains have been recovered by a Georgia research center that suspected the reptile’s death after his GPS tracker stopped moving. The University of Georgia Coastal Ecology Lab ...

About a year ago, opponents determined to stop an Alabama company from mining next to Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp were running out of options. Georgia environmental regulators released draft permits in ...

For years, the thousands of acres of land at the edge of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge were an environmental battlefield, the site of a planned titanium mine that drew fierce resistance from ...

CHARLTON COUNTY, Ga. — A swamp on the Georgia-Florida border has been named one of America’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2023. Nonprofit organization American Rivers placed the Okefenokee Swamp at No.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A company's plan to mine minerals near the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp and its federally protected wildlife refuge neared final approval Friday as Georgia regulators released ...