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This week’s “Around the Commercial Drone Industry” news round-up looks at a new AI-enabled drone stabilization system from MIT, how drones are being used to map marshes in North Caro ...

Mueller State Park, nestled just outside the tiny town of Divide, Colorado, is that rare gem that makes you wonder if you’ve accidentally stumbled onto a movie set. This place isn’t just pretty – it’s ...

It’s no surprise, then, that there’s been a rise in demand for night-time ... Published in the April 2025 issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK). To subscribe to National Geographic ...

A stone’s throw from Belcher’s cairns at Port Refuge National Historic Site, archaeologists have found artifacts up to 4,000 years old, offering evidence of ancestral Inuit contact with the ...

China dominates the global rare earths industry—and it’s not even close. A fight is already underway to lay claim to this sunken island’s natural riches.

This, in turn, will allow scientists to refine their projections for future sea-level rise as Greenland ... Photograph by James Smith, National Geographic for Disney+ The expedition team celebrate ...

Beneath sea urchins’ exterior spines, rounded skeletons called tests are jewels of color, texture, and symmetry. There are hundreds of urchin species, and they’re found in every ocean on ...

The project also provides information about the processes, scale and implications of sea-level rise and variability of extreme events on South Pacific communities. It also makes sea-level data more ...

“Just last week, somebody contacted me from Brisbane,” says Lucy Aplin, a cognitive ecologist at Australian National University and co-author of the study. “Reporting that in a park ...

Forget static borders – experts are warning that rising sea levels, extreme weather, and widespread environmental shifts could literally reshape the familiar map of America within our lifetimes.

Published in the June 2025 issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK). To subscribe to National Geographic Traveller (UK) magazine click here. (Available in select countries only).