The soldier's eyes found mine across the room. His coat was tattered, his expression somewhere between exhaustion and resolve, the battlefield raging around him with no sign of mercy. His gaze suggested he knew how it would end. I did too. The painting had frozen that moment in time, speaking volumes without a word.

Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp could soon be elevated to the same level as Yellowstone National Park, the fjords of Norway or Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s World Heritage Committee is meeting this week in Busan, South Korea, with an agenda that includes deciding whether to add the 400,000-acre Okefenokee […]