Editor's Note: National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear in the opening caption of our December 2017 video ...

This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... It was rejected as being overprocessed; our editors, on the other hand, saw the same photo and thought it was OK.

Editor’s Note: This story accompanies the May 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine, devoted entirely to America’s first national park. Find more at natgeo ...

Editor’s Note: This story accompanies the May 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine, devoted entirely to America’s first national park. Find more at natgeo ...

Editor’s Note: This story accompanies the May 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine, devoted entirely to America’s first national park. Find more at natgeo ...

This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Lots of people are talking about Avery Jackson, a nine-year-old girl from Kansas City who is the first transgender ...

Editor’s Note: This story accompanies the May 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine, devoted entirely to America’s first national park. Find more at natgeo ...

This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Editor’s note: As this issue went to press, the conflict in Gaza escalated. Hamas and other groups stepped up ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat. That was photographer Joel Sartore’s first model in 2006 when he began making studio portraits of ...

Peter Gwin is an editor at large for National Geographic and cohost of the award-winning podcast Overheard. He began as a staff writer for the magazine in 2003, and has contributed stories from an ...