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 ...

Tight hip flexors, especially a deep muscle called the psoas, can silently stress your spine. Here's why this muscle deserves more attention—and how to strengthen it. Lower back pain is often ...

Flights of stairs lead to the preserved rock of an ancient lakebed in Wyoming's Fossil Butte National Monument. The newly described bat fossils were found just outside the park on private land.

This major finding launched her career, and in the 46 years since, Poole, a National Geographic Explorer, has become one of the world’s experts in how African elephants behave and communicate.

Elephants—intelligent, majestic, yet highly threatened—hold tremendous appeal for wildlife-loving travelers. Getting close to them in their natural habitat can be an exhilarating opportunity ...

In northern Kenya, an elephant orphanage turns a pandemic challenge into a win—for the calves, the community, and the land. At the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in northern Kenya, orphaned calves ...

Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, Sunday March 3 at 9/8c on National Geographic. This story was originally published on June 4, 2017. It was updated with additional photos on October 3, 2018.

In 2022 alone the U.S. imported almost 32,000 of the animals according to a report published by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine in May. More than half of these two ...