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Here we reveal the winners of the 12th annual National Geographic Traveller (UK) Photography Competition. We asked you to send in photos that tell great stories, and we received thousands of ...

Photograph by Jim And Jamie Dutcher/National Geographic Creative 1976: Chemical plant accident in Seveso, Italy Toxic vapors expose thousands of people to some of the highest dioxin levels ever ...

A battle over plastic—a material so prolific the UN calls the 90 percent of it that ends up as trash a pollution crisis—is under way in Florida. Coral Gables, a small city of 51,000 people ...

A slew of studies demonstrate the perils of clutter, and how organizing your environment can boost your mood and productivity and reduce stress and anxiety. So why is it so hard? "You'll feel less ...

From King Tut’s tomb to the Dead Sea Scrolls, there’s seemingly nothing archaeologists can’t unearth. So why haven’t they found Atlantis yet? It’s a question regularly fielded by real ...

A version of this story appears in the June 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine. The nonprofit National Geographic Society, committed to illuminating and protecting the wonder of our world ...

Relatives of the humble sea sponge have filtered Earth's waters for hundreds of millions of years or more, long before the first plants took to land. Their simplicity has led scientists to suggest ...