Their areas of expertise span the natural sciences, humanities, fine arts and social sciences, and the funds from the Connor Fellowship are intended to help each rising academic further their research ...

The International Organization for Migration reported that 272 million people—130 million of them women—were living in a country not of their birth in 2019. More than 60 percent of those ...

The photo of a crew of Black women in wet suits aboard a boat was her first encounter with DWP. It beckoned her to follow. She phoned the co-founder, Kenneth Steward. She pledged to join them.

As a photojournalist, she went on to cover war zones from Iraq to Syria to Afghanistan for numerous publications, including National Geographic, where she is one of our Women of Vision.

On the morning of August 28, 1963, National Geographic photographer James P. Blair left his apartment on the corner of 17th and M Streets in Washington, D.C.

2000 A forest elephant walks along the shores of southwestern Gabon. At the turn of the century, ecologist Michael Fay embarked on a 2,000-mile trek through central Africa to survey its remaining ...

Though National Geographic wouldn’t put pictures on its cover until 1959, these “16 Pages of 4-Color Work” were proudly advertised on the front of the magazine.

National Geographic Acknowledges Its Racist Past Coverage The 120-year-old magazine invited a history professor to critique its past coverage of race, and showed little defensiveness in accepting ...

Queen Elizabeth II sits in a car with her husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, on their way to visit to Higham Ferrers, a small town outside Northampton, England, on July 9, 1965.

In the “most complete picture” to date, scientists evaluated the health of 42 bird species across the continent—and found losses of up to 97 percent.

The portrait by Steve McCurry turned out to be one of those images that sears the heart, and in June 1985 it ran on the cover of this magazine. Her eyes are sea green. They are haunted and ...