This story appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Your National Geographic Society membership helped fund recent excavations at Holmul and La Corona, Guatemala. The ...

National Geographic has for decades been one of the best-selling magazines in the country. As recently as 2013, it sold about 4 million copies monthly. But like many print publications, its ...

This story appears in the May 2024 issue of National Geographic magazine. The nonprofit National Geographic Society helped fund field reporting for this article.

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 ...

For the first time, Antarctic krill have been found on seafloor vents. One scientist is working to figure out what they are ...

This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. ‘If you take care of the birds, you take care of most of the big problems in the world.’ That’s what Thomas ...

A note about the term Indigenous. Throughout these stories we’re using the simplest and broadest definition: related to the original inhabitants of a certain geographic location.

In the decades after that Alaskan journey, Scidmore became a household name to readers of National Geographic magazine, producing 15 articles and some of the journal’s first color photography ...

In January a team from National Geographic Television & Film’s EXPLORER brought McCurry to Pakistan to search for the girl with green eyes. They showed her picture around Nasir Bagh, the still ...

This story appears in the October 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. At Lees Ferry, Arizona, the launch point for a raft trip down the basement of the continent, not a disheartening word ...