This story appears in the October 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Clad in a camouflage jacket, the mosquito netting unzipped from his hood, Yuri Khudi squats by the fire inside his ...

This story appears in the December 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s a warm winter day in southern California, and busloads of tourists are pulling into an overlook above Beverly ...

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a world that ... in the dark, oxygen-free environment of a commercial landfill or in the cool waters of the ...

This story appears in the January 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific ...

This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the digital age, when it’s easy to manipulate a photo, it’s harder than ever to ensure that the images we publish ...

This story appears in the May 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Beer cans once lay at the bottom of Spirit Lake. Mark Smith remembers them perfectly: 20-year-old Olympia flattops ...

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Space suits—designed to provide oxygen and consistent atmospheric pressure—have evolved from pressure suits for ...

This story appears in the October 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. A honeybee queen, when all is right in her world, should live for two to three years. But in the United States ...

This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. We were sitting in ... Panthera has distributed 9,000 of them free to church members and can barely keep up with ...

This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. To a degree unimaginable a decade ago, the intensely personal subject of gender identity has entered the public square.

This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Italian physicist and photographer Alessandro Cerè took a break from work at the Centre for Quantum Technologies in ...

Cory Richards has photographed nine stories for the magazine. His previous article, “Myanmar’s Toughest Climb,” ran in September 2015. Society Grant Your National Geographic Society ...