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National Geographic's enterprising photographers have helped readers explore and learn about our beautiful world through their images for more than a century. Here is their best work from the past ...

National Geographic photographer Keith Ladzinski focused on the positive when it came to forest fires: the solutions people are working on.

Braving the same unpredictable Antarctic sea ice that doomed the ship 109 years ago, the 2022 team miraculously found the final missing piece of the legendary expedition. Scientists are racing to ...

From cardiovascular disease and obesity to a weakened immune system, the side effects of stress can be life-altering. But there may be a way to prevent those outcomes. This questionnaire—first ...

Follow the monarch on its 3,000-mile journey across the continent Follow the monarch on its 3,000-mile journey across the continent Monarchs are actually toxic—and 5 other amazing butterfly ...

With Japan’s cherry blossoms, bullet trains and snow-ringed peaks attracting record visitor numbers, the Jan/Feb 2025 issue of National Geographic ... This latest issue sets out to uncover ...

This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. By the time Hurricane ... have brought me to see the latest in adaptive beach protection. It’s called the ...

This story appears in the June 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. In an earthen pit in central China, under what used to be their village’s persimmon orchard, three middle-aged women ...

find out everything you need to know about tartiflette and taste the standout seafood of Tasmania’s windswept coastline with the latest issue of Food by National Geographic Traveller (UK).