8 activities to do under the stars in Scotland
Adventure doesn’t stop after dark in Scotland, from twilight kayaking along the River Tay to pitch-black bungee jumps in the ...
Celebrating National Geographic Day: A tribute to exploration and discovery
National Geographic Day, celebrated annually, honors the spirit of exploration, discovery, and understanding the world around ...
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How Grand Prismatic Spring Became Yellowstone's Social Media Darling
Grand Prismatic Spring ascended from a beautiful backwater spot to the second most popular destination in Yellowstone ...
What can save the desert's most tenacious birds? Tiny underground apartments.
In the vast urban sprawl of Arizona, the habitat of the tiny western burrowing owl is being destroyed—prompting ...
The U.S. built a covert Cold War base under a Greenland glacier. Its secrets are now being revealed.
What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...
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Planet or Plastic? by National Geographic
is a campaign by National Geographic magazine to raise awareness and help reverse the global ... The June 2018 issue was dedicated to the Planet or Plastic? initiative; the cover featured a striking ...
What drew these 1,300 perfect circles on the sea floor? We may finally know.
When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...
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Of Mammoths and Men
15 min read This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. One last chance ... Yakutiya’s Ust-Yanskiy District, which covers a swath of tundra three times the ...
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The Museums Coming in the Next 5 Years Will Be a New Way to See NYC and Washington, D.C.
The Climate Museum will open in New York City in 2029 — in the same building as a 455-room hotel — while Washington, D.C.
How this Japanese city is keeping the geisha tradition alive
Meet the mistress of Nara’s last geisha house — a remarkable woman who’s on a mission to keep this complex tradition alive in ...
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Too Young to Wed
This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Because the wedding ... to stay on and cover the cost of college, Shobha needed a donor. The email arrived after I ...