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Editor’s Note: The July 2024 issue of National Geographic is a special single-topic issue titled “Indigenous Futures,” focused on how Indigenous communities around the world are charting a ...

Photograph by ROBERT F. SISSON AND DONALD MCBAIN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE I’m the tenth editor of National Geographic since its founding in 1888. I’m the first woman and the first Jewish ...

Editor's note: Koko the gorilla, an ambassador for her species famous for learning sign language, has died at the age of 46. To honor Koko's memory, National Geographic is republishing ...

“Bringing more Indigenous perspectives into National Geographic provides a new level ... how they and others are advancing our thinking. A note about the term Indigenous. Throughout these ...