Going meat-free for just a few weeks can trigger surprising changes, from gut bacteria shifts to lower cholesterol. But the ...

What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...

This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine ... and you feel light and free? I was like, Wait a minute, what just happened to me? Why is that?” ...

After plans stalled for a new dam in the Czech Republic, eight beavers saved the day seemingly overnight. “At this point, ...

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 ...

This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... girls whose parents might let them leave home for a free education at its girls' boarding school in the city of ...

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... microplastics have chemical impacts, because free-floating pollutants that wash off the land and into our ...

This story appears in the February 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine ... to be cleared away free of charge by the money-grubbing citizenry after the dome was complete.

On a nearly ice-free August morning ... in the summer,” says marine ecologist Enric Sala, leader of the National Geographic Society’s Pristine Seas project. “It will be like one of those ...