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This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Because the wedding was illegal and a secret, except to the invited guests, and because marriage rites in Rajasthan are ...

If we keep burning fossil fuels indefinitely, global warming will eventually melt all the ice at the poles and on mountaintops, raising sea level by 216 feet. Explore what the world’s new ...

This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s apparition time: 5:40 p.m. In a small Roman Catholic chapel in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the village of ...

This story appears in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. N. Nitrogen. Atomic number seven. Unnoticed, untasted, it nevertheless fills our stomachs. It is the engine of agriculture ...

This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Moon jellies, which are found in shallow bays around the world, look like small, not entirely friendly ghosts.

This story appears in the July 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. The race for the ages can be run only in our imagination: Usain Bolt vs. Jesse Owens. Bolt is in his 21st-century lane, a ...

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. ‘Don’t worry, you can’t get lost down here.’ Larisa Pozdnyakova’s words, in her thick Russian accent, float to ...

This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. By the time Hurricane Sandy veered toward the Northeast coast of the United States last October 29, it had mauled ...

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