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 ...

It is Mississippi. Editor's Note: Bijal P. Trivedi is a senior science editor at National Geographic and author of Breath from Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the ...

"The discovery of the Clotilda sheds new light on a lost chapter of American history," says Fredrik Hiebert, archaeologist-in-residence at the National Geographic ... to map the contours of ...

David Scheurer is a scientist from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who studies dead zones. He notes that it's difficult to attribute a larger dead zone to just one practice ...

For the past 20 years writing for National Geographic, I’ve identified and ... Greece; Nicoya, Costa Rica; and the Seventh-day Adventist communities in Loma Linda, California—have the most ...

Since 2005, National Geographic Explorer Zeb Hogan has been searching the world to find the world’s largest fish. In mid-June, a team he leads in Cambodia got a call from a fisherman named Moul ...

People have lived in dread of monsters since time immemorial. Who wouldn’t be terrified of flesh-eating beasts? Or bloodsucking night stalkers? Or zombies reanimated from the grave? This is the ...