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 ...

“You’ve got to think big.” (see a video on APR by the National Geographic Society.) In the 19 years since, the group has raised $160 million in private donations, much of it from high-tech ...

Deep in the heart of Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Selah Abong’o froze ... “It was just a really big forest elephant,” she laughed. “We don’t have dinosaurs here, although it’s easy ...

This article was created in partnership with the National Geographic Society. Oriente Region, Ecuador — Pushed forward by a chugging long-tail motor, an old dugout canoe carries us down the ...

This story is part of the National Geographic 33. A pioneer of big-mountain snowboarding, Jeremy Jones watched as helicopters made remote backcountry runs suddenly reachable, enabling access to ...