The Trump administration announced its withdrawal from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ...

A company that has spent years battling conservationists as it seeks a permit to mine outside the Okefenokee Swamp and its federally protected wildlife refuge needs to do just one thing before ...

The University of Georgia’s chapter of the Georgia Student Swamp Coalition (GSSC) is fighting to protect the Okefenokee swamp ...

A company pursuing permits to mine for titanium on the doorstep of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge says their project will bring badly needed, good-paying jobs to rural south Georgia. But some ...

Scientists make troubling discovery after analyzing more than 100 swamp alligators: 'What else is being affected?' ...

FOLKSTON, Ga. — Between its size and preservation, there isn’t another place quite like it on earth. It’s located not much more than an hour drive from most of Jacksonville. And yet despite that ...

GEORGIA — As the year comes to a close, and a new presidential administration is set to lead Washington in January, there’s a final push to prevent a titanium mining project from getting closer to ...

As flocks of white settlers moved to the area in the late 1800s, railroads were built along the edge of the swamp. Though those railroads crept closer and closer until eventually going through it, ...

To David Walter Banks, there’s something special about the Okefenokee Swamp, the largest blackwater swamp in North America. There’s a mystical quality, the photographer says, that’s hard to explain to ...

FILE - The sun sets on the lily pads and floating vegetation in the Chesser Prairie inside the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge on March 30, 2022, in Folkston, Ga ...