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This story appears in the April 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. Five minutes past ... the North Atlantic Current, all the way north, you'd end up in the West Spitsbergen Current ...

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. National Geographic has always been at the forefront of lunar mapping. As the Apollo program closed in on its goal ...

8 min read This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The maps here ... 80 degrees Fahrenheit instead of the current 58. The entire Atlantic seaboard would ...

This story appears in the December 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s a warm winter ... He pinpoints the cat’s current location; then we hike on to check sites where it lingered ...

This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. By the time Hurricane ... About a third of its current rise comes from thermal expansion—from the fact that ...

This story appears in the August 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Five years ago I ... the record’s been broken every year since. The latest UN report says 68.5 million people had ...

This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. We sink into Stargate ... They worked with urgency. At the current rate of sea-level rise (possibly several feet ...

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the past three ... To help keep you current on developments, we’re expanding our environmental coverage across ...

This story appears in the January 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the winter of ... forces in our environment—wind, water, current—from threat to opportunity.