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 ...

Usually he can be found analyzing data in an air-conditioned office, but lately he’s been pounding the city’s blistering pavement to map the ... contributor to National Geographic in print ...

I use the Brick during my travels to block certain apps without restricting crucial ones, such as maps or messaging. For travelers whose anxiety gets worse due to constant email or social media ...

Kerr uses a chainsaw to clear the area around a fire line to help contain the flames near South Lake Tahoe while working the Caldor fire in California on September 3, 2021. National Geographic ...

Shasta Cascade constitutes roughly one quarter of California’s total geologic ... Click here for National Geographic reporting on the pandemic. Miles Howard covers outdoor and urban recreation ...

Dr. Ted Goudge, a Shenandoah native and retired Associate Professor of Geography at Northwest Missouri State University, has ...

There are times when the Scripps National Spelling Bee transforms into a geography bee. Scripps has begun relying on obscure ...

The General Sherman tree, a giant sequoia in California’s Sequoia ... the Windy Fire in the Sequoia National Forest. Photograph by Stuart Palley, National Geographic The park has fed the Giant ...

(Related: Northern California’s oyster capital is a hidden gem.) During the grape harvest, a worker pours a bucket of white grapes onto a tractor-trailer. Photograph by Jordi Salas, Getty Images ...

Red abalone were a key food source for native populations on California's Channel Islands. David Liittschwager/National Geographic Images But the details of the Lone Woman’s life, historians and ...

Heat advisories have been issued for large areas of California, as forecasters expect temperatures to climb above 100 across ...

A renowned statistician, he’d retired from his teaching post at the University of California Berkeley ... Sharon Guynup is a National Geographic explorer and a global fellow at the Wilson ...