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 ...

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 ...

They're only 9 years old, but these girls and boys from around the world offer keen insight into how gender shapes destiny.

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 ...

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 ...

National Geographic plans to open a 100,000-square-foot museum in downtown D.C. by mid-2026, the organization announced ...

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 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the digital age, when it’s easy to manipulate a photo, it’s harder than ever to ensure that the images we publish ...

This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Italian physicist and photographer Alessandro Cerè took a break from work at the Centre for Quantum Technologies in ...

National Geographic's team of experts and photographers compiled the newly released BEST OF THE WORLD 2025 list.

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 ...