It is the third largest contributor of fresh water to the Atlantic Ocean in North America. With the Altamaha, there is good news and bad news - which has been its story historically.

A record-breaking fish normally found in the Atlantic Ocean has been caught in a river in Georgia. ... Hickory and American Shad are farmed commercially in Georgia's Savannah and Altamaha Rivers, ...

Sonja Cox fondly remembers tromping through the marshes on St. Simons Island as a child with her mother, who taught her about the hundreds of fiddler crabs burying into holes and coastal ecology.

BRUNSWICK - There might be a red tide near the mouth of the Altamaha River beginning Friday, but not the deadly kind that kills fish. If weather permits, researchers plan to release 50 gallons of a… ...

The nonprofit says the 6,154 acre-property is known as Beards Creek Forest and includes almost six miles of land along the Altamaha River. It is home to endangered species of mussels and fish, ...

Nearly 200 people packed a gallery on the University of Georgia's North Campus Thursday for the opening of an exhibit on the Altamaha River - Georgia's largest river, and one of the largest in the ...

Environmental volunteers along the Altamaha River in Georgia say the water is being polluted by a surprising culprit: a recycling plant. James Holland, a member of the Altamaha Riverkeeper, says SP ...

Taylor Brown’s new book “The River of Kings” opens just outside of modern day Jesup as two brothers drop their kayaks into the Altamaha River at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.

Sturgeon are born in freshwater rivers and spawn there, but in between spend most of their lives in the ocean. Atlantic sturgeon can be 14 feet long and weigh up to 800 pounds, and can be a ...