Josh Howard has been coming to Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp for 50 years, starting with his grandfather taking him there, then taking his own children. He knows just about every inch of the place. "We ...

World Heritage status is an honor reserved for the planet’s most iconic natural and cultural treasures — places like the Great Barrier Reef and Yellowstone National Park.

GEORGIA — U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff announced he was backing a proposal to expand the Okefenokee Wildlife Regue in Georgia to protect the land, adding to the list of people contesting plans to mine the ...

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.

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 conservation group purchased land near the swamp and wildlife refuge to halt a company’s bid to mine for titanium. A high-profile, yearslong fight over a proposal to mine near the nation’s largest ...

Drawing roughly 800,000 visitors each year, the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is one of the last intact blackwater swamps in North America and is home to hundreds of plant and animal species, ...

A vast swamp in southeast Georgia may soon join the ranks of the Grand Canyon and Statue of Liberty, if former Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue gets his way. The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge ...

Environmentalists are celebrating a rare win of keeping a mining operation from opening up next to a National Wildlife refuge in South Georgia. Environmental groups in Georgia are celebrating a big ...

Georgia House lawmakers are considering two bills that would ban mining near the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. Proponents of the ban argue that mining would damage the swamp's ecosystem and ...

Josh Howard has been coming to Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp for 50 years, starting with his grandfather taking him there, then taking his own children. He knows just about every inch of the place. "We ...