The swamp forests interweave with sunlit expanses of marsh called "prairies," covered with lily pads, grasses, and carnivorous plants growing in several feet of tannin-tinted blackwater.

The swamp itself includes both a Georgia state park, Stephen C. Foster, and the federally managed Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, which covers more than 350,000 acres.

Our relationship with wetlands is nothing if not troubled; swamps, bogs, and marshes have long been cast as wastelands, paved over to make way for agriculture and human development. But with ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A company's plan to mine minerals near the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp and its federally protected wildlife refuge neared final approval Friday as Georgia regulators ...

A swamp on the Georgia-Florida border has been named one of America’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2023. Nonprofit organization American Rivers placed the Okefenokee Swamp at No. 10 on the list ...

Georgia residents are outraged over a titanium dioxide mine that could open only 2.9 miles from their beloved Okefenokee Swamp. The swamp is home to endangered animals like wood storks.

While the swamp itself is not at risk of being turned into a giant mining pit, the project would result in a 500-by-100-foot pit in the nearby Trail Ridge, which holds the swamp waters in place.

A Georgia boater and his wife stumble upon a swarm of alligators in a canal at Stephen C. Foster State Park in the Okefenokee Swamp. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles!