Protecting and restoring Earth’s rainforests is crucial to our planet’s survival. That’s why National Geographic Society ... regions systematically. The science indicates that each ...

Highly acclaimed as a National Geographic Certified Educator, Joan Ava Gillman leverages over four decades of experience in ...

A 2010 satellite image shows dozens of golden islands covered with strange parallel lines shining among the shallow waters of ...

Understanding such patterns is critically important in the Arctic, which is warming faster than anywhere on Earth. "Caribou and muskoxen ... The study was funded by the U.S. National Science ...

In 1986, humanity gained its first close look into the secrets of Uranus thanks to the Voyager 2 probe. This probe, after a ...

Oracle bones were often made from tortoise shells, as in this photograph, and from the shoulder blades of oxen. According to archaeologists, a fortune teller would carve a question into the bone with ...

“Unfortunately, climate change on the one earth we have is like a giant experiment with a sample size of one,” Oberhauser says, “not an ideal situation.” For now, in Mexico, Sáenz-Romero ...

In the remote Siberian tundra, the ground itself has begun to explode. Since 2014, more than 20 mysterious craters, each ...

Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment ...

BalMan, a high-altitude balloon developed by Toulouse-based Hemeria, has completed its first test flight, validating stratospheric safety and reliability.

Spanish authorities redeployed a marine research vessel to join the search for missing flood victims along the Mediterranean ...