Mary Landers covers Coastal Georgia’s environment for The Current, a topic she covered for nearly 24 years at the Savannah Morning News, where she began and ended her time there writing about health, including most recently focusing on the pandemic. She’s adept at telling the stories of everyone from jellyfish fishers to pipeline protesters. Mary is a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi, where she taught environmental science at Lake Malawi National Park. As a reporter in Georgia, she’s won numerous investigative reporting awards as well as the Larry Peterson Investigative Journalism Award.
The stark white of an Oreo cookie’s filling comes from titanium dioxide, a valuable mineral found in deposits along Trail Ridge, just east of the Okefenokee Swamp.
The National Park Service floated the idea of making land swaps with some private land owners at Cumberland Island National Seashore about 18 months ago.
Ogeechee Riverkeeper Damon Mullis is looking for something he hopes he never finds: evidence the Hyundai plant in Ellabell is polluting the river his organization is dedicated to protecting.
