Photograph by Amy Toensing, National Geographic Each image exerts its own gravitational pull like a planet. It’s common to see a staffer who, on the way to a meeting or the bathroom, has been ...

“It’s all about telling the story of wild animals in a way that hopefully gets the world to stop and pay attention,” Sartore said. Sartore is a National Geographic Explorer, wildlife ...

To honor Koko's memory, National Geographic is republishing "Conversations ... to express her displeasure, or to lie her way out of a jam, then she is exploiting language the way we do as human ...

National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry has been ... and give marine life a chance, nature finds a way: It is resilient, and it can heal. But nature needs a little help.

There is the partnership between photographers, writers, and story teams in the office, who collaborate to bring a National Geographic story ... large alligator in her way. A local biologist ...

This barrier divided the Mediterranean into west and east, turning the western mediterranean into a giant bowl: for the water to make its way east ... The nonprofit National Geographic Society ...

Lake Titicaca was a sacred space to the ancient Andean empire of the Inca, which at its height in the early 16th century controlled territory from modern-day Colombia to Chile. The Inca built more ...

For modern readers and writers, her story offers an imaginative space that’s both an escape and a place of empowerment, a way to think about what’s worth fighting for despite great personal ...

“We’re all touched by this in some way,” she says. “Everybody’s got a story to tell.” Sharon Guynup is a National Geographic explorer and a global fellow at the Wilson Center. She ...

The mask can be seen today at the National Museum, Quito ... and scores of men had died along the way. Most of those who survived mutinied and returned to Panama. Pizarro was forced to continue ...

They just want to make money. But they could make money with tourism. We just have to bend them the right way.” Joe Womack, a retired Marine Corps major, now fights for a cleaner environment in ...

The hidden wonders of long-vanished cities that once housed kings and hummed with everyday life are being rediscovered thanks to modern-day archaeology. Tel Megiddo in Israel holds the outlines of ...