This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. If you noticed them at all, they’d look like nothing more than tiny, windblown seeds floating amid the rushes at the ...

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 ...

A version of this story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. At National Geographic, we’ve helped you explore the world for 130 years. With the launch of the May print ...

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 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Not every feat of taxidermy qualifies as art. But as the art of taxidermy has endured and evolved, it has given form to ...

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Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Mesopotamia—“the land between two rivers”—gave birth to ...

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This story appears in the May 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Beer cans once lay at the bottom of Spirit Lake. Mark Smith remembers them perfectly: 20-year-old Olympia flattops ...

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 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 ...