With the help of the National Geographic Society ... A 96-year-old sabanero, or Costa Rican cowboy, on horseback in the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica. Photograph by GIANLUCA COLLA, Nat Geo Image ...

It means the drone’s lidar was used to both determine the geographic location and map the surrounding area. “Normally you’d first have to locate yourself and then do the mapping,” he says.

Reuben Wu, a British photographer and visual artist based in Chicago, was first introduced to National Geographic as most ... is bisected by the A303—a major road that may soon be in a ...

“Dead zones” are deadly: Few or no organisms can survive in their oxygen-depleted, or hypoxic, waters. Often encompassing large swaths of ocean (and even lakes and ponds), dead zones become ...

(Trading Chinese silk for Persian horses helped create the Silk Road.) When the warrior statues were first produced, they were painted in rich, bright colors. The first emperor regarded himself as ...

A radical idea to support the recovery of damaged ecosystems has been gathering steam: resurrect species that have gone extinct and reintroduce them to the wild. Proponents of “de-extinction ...