For the occasion, we’ve created the first ever “flip” issue of National Geographic—essentially ... Two scenarios emerge. On the magazine cover, there’s a verdant Earth.

Photograph by RAY CHAPIN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE “Cards and clay pipes amuse guests in Fairfax House’s 18th-century parlor,” reads the caption in a 1956 article on Virginia history.

To honor Koko's memory, National Geographic is republishing "Conversations ... We are presenting this article as originally published; the science within may not be up-to-date.

Braids of frost adorn beech and spruce trees on a ridge in the West Beskids. The discontinuous range—part of the ecologically important Carpathian Mountains—also spans Poland and Slovakia ...

This story appears in the February 2021 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was created with additional support from the National Geographic Society. Raxma Xasan Maxamuud never wanted to ...

National Geographic Society with the support of Rolex, launched the Perpetual Planet Amazon Expedition, a one-of-a-kind ...

these assignments were made by National Geographic’s almost entirely non-Indigenous editorial staff. This process raises multiple questions about power dynamics at the magazine—perhaps most ...

For more on lying check out our podcast, “Overheard at National Geographic.” Listen here. This story originally published in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the fall of ...

Scidmore, Nat Geo Image Collection In the decades after that Alaskan journey, Scidmore became a household name to readers of National Geographic magazine ... Scidmore's 1914 article "Young ...

This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. In this time-lapse video, a 436-cubic-meter surface slick sample yields a profusion of organic and synthetic debris.

“Bringing more Indigenous perspectives into National Geographic provides a new level of richness to the work.” Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger created the work “Future Ancestral Technologi ...

Expressions that are hard to ignore. A version of this story appears in the April 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine.