Poached for Its Horn, This Rare Bird Struggles to Survive. The mysterious helmeted hornbill fades from Southeast Asia’s forests as poachers and traffickers target it for the illegal wildlife trade.

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

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 ...

Where is Noah’s Ark? Here’s why it will never be found. For more than a century, people have sought the precise location of Noah’s Ark. Archaeologists say it’s a fool’s errand.

Revisiting a National Geographic photographer’s strange encounter while searching for the source of the Amazon. National Geographic writer, photographer, and explorer Loren McIntyre perches at ...

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 ...

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.

This story appears in the September 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. In almost every photo from our 1986 family vacation to Washington, D.C., I am showing off the souvenir I picked out ...

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 ...

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

But recycling can go only so far. Part of the solution, many say, must be to use less disposable plastic in the first place. The “zero waste” movement, which dates to the mid-1990s, is gaining ...

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 ...