Landscape in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia. Set at the headwaters of the Suwannee and St. Marys rivers in southeastern Georgia, the Okefenokee Swamp is not only one of America’s ...

A recently announced land deal presents a second time a mining proposal near the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge was thwarted due to public outcry. (Joe Cook/Georgia Rivers) Environmentalists are ...

A coalition of environmental organizations delivered more than 24,000 petition signatures and nearly 300 pieces of artwork ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — 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 ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — President Donald Trump’s former agriculture secretary is urging the administration to support adding a vast, federally protected wildlife refuge in the Okefenokee Swamp to a list of ...

WAYCROSS, Ga. (WSAV) — The six-year battle between the Okefenokee Swamp and Twin Pines LLC is now over after Conservation Fund made a $60 million deal. Twin Pines LLC owned the 7,700 acres outside of ...

The Trump administration announced it will once again withdraw from the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, stating the agency focuses on an "ideological agenda for international development at odds with our ...

There's July 4th, Pride Month, and Juneteenth, but there's one more summer tradition you may not know about. There are plenty of alligators in south Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp. They tend to be ...

The nighttime gathering of alligators offered researchers a rare chance to view a congregation of predators exhibiting eyeshine in Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp. NASA Instagram photo A scene straight out ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former agriculture secretary is urging the administration to support adding a vast, federally protected wildlife refuge in the Okefenokee Swamp to a list ...