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Stacks of past issues of National Geographic magazines against a white background. In Conkin’s novel Community Board, the lead character retreats from an imploded marriage to her parents' empty ...

It also functions as a fat-storage unit, providing energy reserves ... of this story appears in the June 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine. Based in New York City, Kholood Eid ...

Memphis-based visual artist, author and musician Zack Orsborn is on day 127 of “living a creative life.” Every month, dozens ...

Spending time in nature is important for your mental health. But studies show that even just listening to birds singing can ease symptoms of anxiety and depression. A European robin, Erithacus ...

A scientist examines an axolotl x-ray at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico City. What’s more, understanding axolotl genetics could ...

Homeowners Dr. Lynn Cornell and Michael Melford have a passion for caring for nature. Cornell founded and served as president ...

A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney. A colorized computed tomography (CT) scan of the brain revealing blood ...

and best-selling author whose latest book for National Geographic is The Blue Zones American Kitchen. This story appears in the January 2023 issue of National Geographic magazine.

Since 2005, National Geographic Explorer Zeb Hogan has been searching the world to find the world’s largest fish. In mid-June, a team he leads in Cambodia got a call from a fisherman named Moul ...

For the occasion, we’ve created the first ever “flip” issue of National Geographic—essentially two magazines in one—to revisit environmental milestones of the past half century and to ...

But 5,400 years later, I feel their sorrow. This story appears in the September 2024 issue of National Geographic magazine. Over two decades of writing for National Geographic, Peter Gwin’s ...