A Northern California park near Reno was named a top U.S. national park. See where it ranks and why it stood out.

1 of 13 Archaeologists study a colossal Olmec stone head in La Venta, Mexico in this 1947 National Geographic photo. The Olmec civilization, the first in Mesoamerica, offers valuable clues into ...

Photograph by Jodi Cobb, National Geographic It’s the closest thing we have to a “wall of fame” and is basically the first thing a new photographer sees when she or he arrives on the floor ...

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 ...

“You’ve got to think big.” (see a video on APR by the National Geographic Society.) In the 19 years since, the group has raised $160 million in private donations, much of it from high-tech ...

Tulane University archaeologist and National Geographic Explorer Francisco Estrada-Belli, who was also not involved in the new study, says some scholars have proposed Tikal was ruled after this by ...

Global equities were sluggish Thursday as US Treasury bond yields moderated following House passage of President Donald Trump's mammoth tax cut legislation. A spike on Wednesday in yields on 10 ...

The Flood Insurance Rate Maps used by FEMA are based on antiquated ... (FEMA did not respond to a request by National Geographic for an interview.) FIRM’s shortfalls date to their creation ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — U.S. wildlife officials want to extend federal protections to a rare Nevada fish that environmentalists ... The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries ...

Nathan Hurner/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP U.S. wildlife officials want to extend federal protections to a rare Nevada fish that ... and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries ...