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What World Heritage honor will and won’t mean for Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee meets this month in Busan, South Korea, to decide if the Okefenokee should be a World Heritage site.
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As top predators, sharks are vital to ocean health and don’t deserve bum rap
Sharks get a bum rap: The risk of a shark attack is very small, and the creatures play a crucial role in nature.
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‘Just not good enough’: Critics blast Atlanta’s extreme heat protections
Doctors, homeless services organizations and grassroots groups criticize Atlanta’s response to a heat wave that scorched the city around July Fourth.
Georgia’s most valuable fruit isn’t the peach anymore
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Georgia agency orders data center’s ‘pop-up’ power plant to halt construction
The first “pop-up” power plant to serve a Georgia data center has been ordered to stop construction and cited for an alleged breach of state law by environmental officials.
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Gilded Age redux? Fed plan OKs new mansions on ‘primitive’ Georgia island
Land swaps at Georgia's Cumberland Island National Seashore have watchdog groups concerned that a new Gilded Age could return to what was once a Carnegie family playground.
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Fourth of July marks the turning point of the natural year
Fourth of July is used as a rule-of-thumb date to mark the turning point — the high noon — of the natural year.
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Atlanta is investigating a new fish kill on a different metro area river
The city of Atlanta said it was investigating reports of dead fish on the South River that may have been caused by a water reclamation center chemical spill.
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Georgia’s first data center ‘pop-up’ power plant is breaking rules, groups say
Environmental groups argue a data center in Covington and a 90-megawatt "off-grid" power plant under construction to serve it are violating state and federal pollution laws.