The Conservation Fund said it will buy all 7,700 acres (31.16 square kilometers) that Alabama-based Twin Pines Minerals owns outside the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Georgia, ...

A coal mine employing hundreds of workers is on the brink of closure, and could “pause” production within months if additional cash or equity is not sourced.

After six years, the controversial plan to mine next to Georgia’s beloved Okefenokee Swamp has been halted. The Conservation Fund, a nonprofit organization specializing in the acquisition of at-risk ...

The Alabama company that planned to mine titanium dioxide next to the Okefenokee Swamp has agreed to sell its property to an ...

The landmark deal ends a years-long fight over a proposed mine next to one of the South’s last truly wild places.