Photographer and Costa ambassador Andy Mann ventures to a Chilean archipelago that draws comparisons to the Galápagos.

A battle over plastic—a material so prolific the UN calls the 90 percent of it that ends up as trash a pollution crisis—is under way in Florida. Coral Gables, a small city of 51,000 people ...

These dark sky sanctuaries, reserves, parks, and trails invite you to immerse yourself in the wonders of our night skies.

Learn the difference between total and partial solar eclipses, how to be in the path of totality, and how to view one safely. During a total solar eclipse, the moon perfectly aligns between Earth ...

A team led by Gianpiero Cavalleri at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin pieced together the new map using the genetics ... the older they are. National Geographic’s Miguel Vilar, lead ...

Only a tiny fraction of the deep ocean is explored, leaving 66% of Earth’s surface largely unseen. Researchers urge global, ...

Photograph by Jim And Jamie Dutcher/National Geographic Creative 1976 ... by the burning of fossil fuels are already warming the planet. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...

Climate change has already touched every corner of the planet and will continue to reshape ... a climate scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.

I didn’t like junior high school geography. If I had a choice in the matter, I would have jumped at the chance to suffer ...

“The future of our planet lies in indigenous ways of living on the Earth,” says Jon Waterhouse, Indigenous Peoples Scholar at the Oregon Health and Science University and a National Geographic ...

This region of the Indo-Pacific, known as the Coral Triangle, is the planet’s richest trove of ... in the Philippines is Tubbataha Reefs, a national park and UNESCO World Heritage site in ...

The Flood Insurance Rate Maps used by FEMA are based on antiquated ... (FEMA did not respond to a request by National Geographic for an interview.) FIRM’s shortfalls date to their creation ...