Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp is home to endangered species. Here's what to know before planning a visit to the wildlife refuge.

Planned mining at the the Okefenokee Swamp, which straddles the Georgia-Florida border, would damage the swamp’s water ...

Georgia environmental regulators could decide any day now whether to clear an Alabama-based company to mine next door to Georgia’s famed Okefenokee Swamp. Now, a pair of bills that would prevent ...

The 402,000-acre Okefenokee Swamp — land of the trembling earth — is a remarkable treasure, but its pristine heritage is being threatened by corporate greed.

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recently announced the recipients of its Outdoor Stewardship Program grants ...

Several proposed pieces of legislation affecting the environment didn’t make the cut during the latest legislative session, ...

For the fourth straight session, legislators will return home without passing any restrictions on mining near the famed Okefenokee Swamp. This year, two bills concerning the swamp were introduced ...

This so incensed House Democrats that they staged a photo-op walkout. Who has time to worry about our treasured Okefenokee when there is such pressing issues as to whether or not five (5 ...

Set at the headwaters of the Suwannee and St. Marys rivers in southeastern Georgia, the Okefenokee Swamp is not only one of America’s most important ecosystems, but it's also the largest ...

Landscape in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia.