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8 min read This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The maps here ... 80 degrees Fahrenheit instead of the current 58. The entire Atlantic seaboard would ...

This story appears in the October 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. IN JANUARY 2012 A ... how one terrified herd of 50 went down together, the latest of the tens of thousands of ...

This story appears in the June 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On Thursday ... “We are working with the current from the Aurora Borealis alone,” a Boston telegrapher messaged ...

The ability to extend your joints past their normal range of motion isn’t just a harmless party trick—you may be at risk for ...

This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. We were sitting ... Thus soon after the latest killings in Junnar, a forest ranger there emailed me: “Glad to ...

This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. We sink into Stargate ... They worked with urgency. At the current rate of sea-level rise (possibly several feet ...

This story appears in the January 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the winter of ... forces in our environment—wind, water, current—from threat to opportunity.

This story appears in the January 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Every summer ... and scanning their irises to find out if the latest face-recognition software can tell them apart.

This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Most of us would ... this year and has big expansion plans. "The current U.S. demand is somewhere between 15,000 and ...

This story appears in the March 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. The path leads up ... during most of the past half billion years. If current trends continue, the rate may soon be ...