About a year ago, opponents determined to stop an Alabama company from mining next to the Okefenokee Swamp were running out of options. Here's how a deal came together.

Conservationists Purchase $60 Million Property to Save Okefenokee Swamp from Strip Mine Conservationists are celebrating a win in southern Georgia.

AJC environment reporter Drew Kann joins the "Politically Georgia" podcast to unpack the land deal that halted a mining project near Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp.

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

As you may be aware by now, a major victory has been declared in the fight to stop Alabama-based Twin Pines Minerals from strip mining land adjacent to our Okefenokee ...

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 ...

A new study from the University of Georgia has uncovered elevated levels of mercury in the Okefenokee Swamp, raising concerns about how far the contamination could travel and what it could mean ...

New body camera footage shows the moment Massachusetts police officers rescued a missing man from a swamp.

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New body camera footage shows the moment Massachusetts police officers rescued a missing man from a swamp.