In Oregon, life is anchored to the state’s vast network of rivers. These once-polluted and dammed waterways now flow healthy ...

For Adam Matano, a sculpture artist tasked with creating a permanent memorial to the mountain lion, the iconic photos of P-22 ...

The 1968 photo of our blue planet inspired the global environmental movement. Now, NASA hopes to recapture that magic on ...

Tonight, NASA intends to launch Artemis II from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending a team of four astronauts to ...

New science is showing that nature’s vital pollinators are smarter than we ever imagined. Here’s why that discovery should ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler [( In the early 1970s, orangutans occupied an ambiguous place in science. They were known to exist, of course, but remained poorly understood, rarely observed, and difficult to ...

By sequencing ancient DNA from the fetus, scientists revealed a severe genetic bottleneck that reshaped Neanderthal history ...

This story is part of the National Geographic 33, our celebration of visionary changemakers. The river that most contemporary maps label “Mississippi,” a French adaptation of an Ojibwe name, is ...

This story is part of the National Geographic 33, our celebration of visionary changemakers. In Long Way Home, the latest installment of Ewan McGregor’s epic motorcycle travel series, the actor found ...

What do America’s national parks taste like? In Northern California, perhaps it’s the earthiness of forest mushrooms and sweetness of crab meat. Along the Southern border, maybe the basso of pine nuts ...

National Geographic releases the un-bee-lievable trailer for the next installment of their Emmy-winning "Secrets of" franchise. From executive producer James Cameron, "Secrets of the Bees" explores ...

More than a century ago, a Tibetan despot’s embrace of a stranger inspired an enduring myth. This decorative saddle was among the gifts given to botanist and National Geographic Explorer Joseph Rock ...