This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic ... of hundreds of plants disappearing as invasive flora crowd out Hawaii’s native species and introduced animals (such ...

This story appears in the August 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Tropical plants aren’t abundant ... Nor are the planet’s most diverse animals, insects. Even so, Montreal-based ...

The Paleozoic era's Silurian period saw animals and plants finally emerge on land ... Huge reef systems flourished in the clear, tropical seas—evident today in the many limestone rock formations ...

The largest agricultural boom on the planet threatens to destroy a spectacular savanna. Here's what happens when progress ...

This story appears in the March 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... suffered the ultimate indignity for an animal: It has been killed by a plant. The swampy pine savanna within a ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. When you conjure up “extinction” in your mind’s eye, you probably see an animal—a dodo, perhaps, or a ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have adapted to the harsh conditions there. Some deserts are among the planet ...

But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and animals living in the desert. In some cases global warming is predicted to increase the area of deserts ...

It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto land to sunbathe. It is named not for the color of its shell, which is normally brown or ...

Photograph by Joel Sartore / National Geographic Photography underpins the efforts of almost all wildlife conservationists, from saving individual animals and plants to entire species. Pioneering ...