Climate change has inexorably stacked the deck in favor of bigger and more intense fires across the American West over the past few decades, science has incontrovertibly shown. Increasing heat ...

Trees began to quake, monkeys shrieked, and birds fled skyward. Deep in the heart of Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Selah Abong’o froze, convinced she was about to encounter something out of ...

Research shows that certain foods really can help with depression and stress. Here’s why—and which foods help most. Fermented vegetables like kimchi are thought to bolster your mood by ...

Bromeliads, ferns, and orchids cover a kapok tree in Yasuni National ... This article was created in partnership with the National Geographic Society. Oriente Region, Ecuador — Pushed forward ...

This story is part of the National Geographic 33. A pioneer of big-mountain snowboarding, Jeremy Jones watched as helicopters made remote backcountry runs suddenly reachable, enabling access to ...

In 2014, a Malaysian Airlines flight mysteriously disappeared. A barnacle-encrusted piece of the plane's wing is one of the most important clues that has been found. New science may be able to ...

“It’s anybody's guess how that’s going to play out,” Jeff Masters, a meteorologist at Yale Climate Connections told National Geographic in 2021. When conditions are ripe for a ...

This story appears in the January 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. The more scientists investigate the microbes living inside us, the more they learn about the surprising impact of ...

The national bird of Honduras had been at risk of extinction but the population has rebounded thanks to conservation efforts supported by the Indigenous Miskito people. La Mosquitia, Honduras ...

Flights of stairs lead to the preserved rock of an ancient lakebed in Wyoming's Fossil Butte National Monument. The newly described bat fossils were found just outside the park on private land.

A tent is pitched underneath the northern lights at Gates of the Arctic, the northernmost national park in the United States. This region of Alaska is among the best places on Earth for viewing ...

The incident would be added to the list of sightings under investigation. In June, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released its “preliminary assessment” of UFO ...