fueled by National Geographic, set Nathan Lump on a path to becoming the magazine's 11th leader since its founding in 1888. A photographer spends two months in the Canadian Arctic and reveals a ...

This story appears in the August 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Fifty feet above the storm-tossed North Sea, a thunderhead of birds has been massing. When the cloudburst comes ...

This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. By the time Hurricane Sandy veered toward the Northeast coast of the United States last October 29, it had mauled ...

8 min read This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The maps here show the world as it is now, with only one difference: All the ice on land has melted and ...

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 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 ...

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 January 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Every summer, on the first weekend in August, thousands of twins converge on Twinsburg, Ohio, a small town southeast ...

This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. We were sitting in the dark, waiting for the leopards beside a trail on the edge of India’s Sanjay Gandhi National ...

is a campaign by National Geographic magazine to raise awareness and help reverse the global environmental crisis caused by single-use plastic. The initiative invites readers to take a pledge to ...

A local artist found nearly three decades' worth of National Geographic magazines along the road. It took eight years, but she finally developed a creative idea of what to do with them. Can Kamala ...

This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. To a degree unimaginable a decade ago, the intensely personal subject of gender identity has entered the public square.