From the waters of an Arctic archipelago all the way to the Southern Ocean and marine waters in between, these photos show ...

Scientists say that the fires ravaging the western United States are burning differently these days. Documenting the ...

Microbes near the surface of the Southern Ocean sustain the polar food chain — impacting the nutrient flow from the surface ...

In our new Ask a Nat Geo Expert Anything series, Dan Buettner weighs in on how to apply the blue zones principles to your own ...

For over a decade, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek has woven a tapestry of ...

A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like ...

Some sixty years after her grandmother discovered “Nutcracker Man,” Louise Leakey unearths his long-lost hand—reviving a ...

National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Bob Ballard revisits the Iron Bottom Sound—rediscovering vessels, and making new finds.

Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute was certainly a rarity among conservationists: She was a household name. For more than six decades, she was the ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed ...

After years of planning, the mountaineer Jim Morrison successfully descended the narrow Hornbein Couloir—notching an ...