In 1883, Eliza Scidmore hopped on a mail steamer to Alaska. Tired of society life in Washington, D.C., she was inspired by the dramatic scenery described by naturalist John Muir in the San ...

"In turning a scholarly journal into the popular National Geographic, 'GHG' became, in my view, the father of magazine photojournalism." Photograph by Wallace W. Nutting, Nat Geo Image Collection ...

Former National Geographic Editor-at-Large Cathy Newman is the author of Women Photographers At National Geographic. She wrote about " The Immortal Corpse ” in the magazine's January 2019 issue ...

All Artifacts from the Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. ... This story appears in the October 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine.

This story appears in the February 2021 issue of National Geographic magazine. ... These two roses are from the collection of Johann Jacob Roemer, a noted botanist in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Looking back on a century of the magazine’s reporting on pachyderms, Julia Andrews, an editor for the National Geographic Image Collection, says there are “definite trends that would shift ...

The Lacoste x National Geographic capsule collection is a celebration of the splendor of nature and of the animal world. The designs were inspired by the National Geographic Photo Ark.

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s hard to get your head around the story of plastic. The facts and figures are so staggering as to seem almost ...