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 ...

ATLANTA (WRBL) — U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff released a statement addressing the Okefenokee Swamp Land deal on Friday and discussed taking the proper steps to continue to preserve the land and protect it ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — The Conservation Fund, a national environmental nonprofit, announced Friday that they had purchased the Twin Pines Mining Site near Trail Ridge outside of the Okefenokee National ...

In June, a six-year battle came to an end to prevent the Georgia Environmental Protection Division from approving surface mining permits for Twin Pines Minerals of Alabama to mine for titanium sands ...

Don't look now but there is an elephant in the room. Well, it's not a room exactly. It is our state government. And it's not ...

In the final days of President Joe Biden’s administration, the federal government’s top wildlife official wrote Gov. Brian Kemp to warn that a mine planned at the edge of Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp ...

The Okefenokee creates deep personal connections with visitors, fostering a sense of shared history and appreciation for nature. Conservation efforts, including the Okefenokee's nomination to the ...

There’s something in the water — and in the gators. A University of Georgia ecotoxicology study found there may be elevated levels of mercury in Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp. The alligators were from ...

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 ...

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 ...

An alligator at the Okefenokee Wildlife Refuge. A new study shows the gators at the Okefenokee have higher levels of mercury in them than other places in the South. Kristen Zemaitis Researchers found ...