Our first in-house map was produced during World War I. By the Second World War, the White House was asking for them by name. National Geographic Society maps supply a backdrop for a meeting between ...

The charismatic ocean advocate and founder of National Geographic Pristine Seas continues to find new ways to combine research and storytelling to champion marine conservation. A drone photo of a reef ...

During her hunt for the Egyptian queen’s lost tomb, National Geographic Explorer Kathleen Martínez uncovered the sunken landscape near the ruins of Taposiris Magna. Archeologist Kathleen Martínez and ...

Prasenjeet Yadav had one goal: capture the perfect image of a pseudo-melanistic tiger for his story on India’s Similipal Tiger Reserve. Easier said than done. Prasenjeet Yadav set up camera traps to ...

The film from Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin profiles Lynsey Addario, a Pulitzer-winning photojournalist whose work has documented the Invasion of the Ukraine and conflicts across Europe and ...

"Cleopatra's Final Secret" reveals exciting discoveries in the search for the burial grounds of ancient Egypt's last ruler. LOS ANGELES -- She lived as the last ruler of ancient Egypt, but little is ...

Dan Buettner's iconic National Geographic cover story transformed our idea of what makes for a long, healthy life. It's now published online for the first time. OKINAWA, JAPANSquatting effortlessly on ...

This story originally published in the July 1906 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. Looking back to that period, many years ago, when the finger ...

In 1976, National Geographic asked actor Robert Redford to follow in the footsteps of the Wild West's greatest outlaws. This is what he saw. Storm comin' ... long ride ahead. Leaving Hollywood behind, ...

Last summer, a group of sport fishermen was casting lines off the coast of Tortuguero National Park in Costa Rica when one of their hooks caught a creature the likes of which no one had ever seen ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

Curators and conservators are finding innovative solutions to protect our history from disaster. Will some be destroyed ...