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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 ...

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...

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 ...

Meet the mistress of Nara’s last geisha house — a remarkable woman who’s on a mission to keep this complex tradition alive in ...

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 ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. In her office on ... tiny patch of sky—about as much as you can cover with your hand with your arm outstretched.