This story appears in the January 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific ...

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a world that ... in the dark, oxygen-free environment of a commercial landfill or in the cool waters of the ...

This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s apparition ... and you feel light and free? I was like, Wait a minute, what just happened to me?

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. From the English ship Hopewell anchored off the coast of what is now North Carolina, Governor John White watched with ...

This story appears in the October 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. A honeybee queen, when all is right in her world, should live for two to three years. But in the United States ...

This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Moon jellies, which are found in shallow bays around the world, look like small, not entirely friendly ghosts.

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Space suits—designed to provide oxygen and consistent atmospheric pressure—have evolved from pressure suits for ...

This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. We were sitting in ... Panthera has distributed 9,000 of them free to church members and can barely keep up with ...

This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Tune in to Panda ... panda becomes a relic behind bars or roams free in the wild. Is a panda cub fooled by a panda ...

This story appears in the April 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Rats are our shadow ... In May 2018 it was declared rat free after helicopters dumped 330 tons of poison in five years ...

Cory Richards has photographed nine stories for the magazine. His previous article, “Myanmar’s Toughest Climb,” ran in September 2015. Society Grant Your National Geographic Society ...