China hopes to become a global leader in protected nature reserves, creating a network of wilderness that would be three ...

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Stacks of past issues of National Geographic magazines against a white background. In Conkin’s novel Community Board, the lead character retreats from an imploded marriage to her parents' empty ...

In recent decades the dome has emerged as a potent “national as well as a religious symbol” for Palestinians, explains Palestinian philosopher Sari Nusseibeh. In his book-strewn office north ...

(Wong and coauthor Benoit Guénard are National Geographic Explorers ... particularly Central and northern South America and southeast Asian islands, the paper reports—areas with a high ...

It seemed like it was going to be kind of too much.” Photograph by J.J. Kelley, National Geographic for Disney+ To access the Renland Ice Cap, the team had to make a daunting ascent up a 1,500 ...

(See National Geographic's favorite reindeer pictures.) “What we’ve found is a really great biological mechanism that’s totally unique and bizarre—and makes perfect sense,” says Glen ...

Greeks don’t hike. You’ll hear this everywhere you go in Greece — usually from the locals themselves. They can’t see the point, apparently; uses up too much beach time. If that’s the ...

Two-thirds of the way through the year, 2023 seems destined to be remembered as the year that extreme weather events left the Northern Hemisphere reeling. According to the European Union’s ...

Julia Flynn Siler, an author and journalist who is also a chorister at St. John’s Church, recently wrote about the health benefits of darkness for National Geographic.

At El Diablo Restaurant in Timanfaya National Park, volcanoes take centre stage. Not only through wraparound windows — where ranks of scorched peaks rampage towards the coast, their iron-red ...

For ancient seafarers, the ocean was a place of mists and uncertain landfalls. They described mysterious islands with godlike people, exotic creatures, and lost civilizations. Some islands ...