This story appears in the January 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Every summer, on the first weekend in August, thousands of twins converge on Twinsburg, Ohio, a small town southeast ...

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 ...

Scenes from the Japanese Internment Resonate Today When the U.S. government held more than 120,000 civilians captive during World War II, it left an enduring stain on the nation.

Pioneering journalist Eliza Scidmore was the magazine's first official female writer, photographer, and board member.

This story appears in the September 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. In almost every photo from our 1986 family vacation to Washington, D.C., I am showing off the souvenir I picked out ...

This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Lots of people are talking about Avery Jackson, a nine-year-old girl from Kansas City who is the first transgender ...

This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. If birds left tracks in the sky, what would they look like? For years Barcelona-based photographer Xavi Bou has been ...

Elizabeth, the photographed Without the wrangling of a savvy photo editor, National Geographic may never have gotten its shots of the monarch’s grandest moment.

Tristan Duke uses Arctic ice and a unique technique to offer a fresh perspective on a world transformed by climate change.

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat. That was photographer Joel Sartore’s first model in 2006 when he began making studio portraits of ...

More than half of Earth’s citizens live in urban areas. This photographer challenged himself to capture cities’ essence in a single image.