Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land ...

Sea spaghetti, red algae, and sea buckthorn may not be the ingredients that come to mind when you think of Scottish cuisine.

The National Park Service is 106 years old. While that number is impressive, many other figures relating to the 424 units—including 63 national parks—the Park Service administers are more ...

A woolly mammoth’s tusk is a story written in ivory. It sprouts from beneath the mammoth’s gums, cells dividing continually, even daily. “The tip of the tusk is the young mammoth,” says ...

Trailer: Investigate secret underground markets in season five of Nat Geo's Emmy Award-winning series, "Trafficked with ...

But a number of finds in our century have challenged this notion: the short-statured Homo floresiensis of Indonesia, who inhabited Flores perhaps as far back as 700,000 years ago; the 118,000 to ...

Guyana has been described as a transit point for cocaine specifically (see National Geographic 1985, which highlights our ...

For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more ...

From the Făgăraș Mountains of Romania to the teeming sea cliffs of St Kilda in Scotland, Europe is still home to staggering displays of summer wildlife. Whether you’re searching for sperm ...

In terrain that pushes your limits, National Geographic photographer Jody MacDonald captures what it means to truly show ...

As Steven Spielberg’s classic celebrates its 50th anniversary, Olivia Petter examines the impact its villainous 25-foot great ...

Durdle Door, on the Dorset coast, has been the only UK beach to be named among a National Geographic list of 14 inspiring coastal spots to be visited at least once in a lifetime ...