This is the source of the Amazon River, so named for the National Geographic photographer, writer, and prolific explorer who made the discovery. “Amazing is the word heard most often at National ...

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 ...

Reuben Wu, a British photographer and visual artist based in Chicago, was first introduced to National Geographic as most⁠ people are: When he was a child, he enjoyed looking at the magazines ...

“They have little handles that are too small for me, and I have quite small hands,” says archaeologist Mette Marie Hald from the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. “They are for ...

Published in the May 2025 issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK). To subscribe to National Geographic Traveller (UK) magazine click here. (Available in select countries only).

Beneath sea urchins’ exterior spines, rounded skeletons called tests are jewels of color, texture, and symmetry. There are hundreds of urchin species, and they’re found in every ocean on ...

It seemed like it was going to be kind of too much.” Photograph by J.J. Kelley, National Geographic for Disney+ To access the Renland Ice Cap, the team had to make a daunting ascent up a 1,500 ...

In recent decades the dome has emerged as a potent “national as well as a religious symbol” for Palestinians, explains Palestinian philosopher Sari Nusseibeh. In his book-strewn office north ...

A new National Geographic documentary explores her life and work, teaching generations how interconnected we are with the natural world. “We are all interconnected,” the famed primatologist ...

It takes me to a viewpoint on the western rim, via the so-called Stone Forest. ‘When God built the world,’ an old saying goes, ‘he put all the leftover stones in Epirus.’ A large ...

Julia Flynn Siler, an author and journalist who is also a chorister at St. John’s Church, recently wrote about the health benefits of darkness for National Geographic.

Good posture is not just about sitting straight. It can help you feel better, think more clearly, and could prevent nerve compression, poor tolerance of physical activity, and chronic pain. Poor ...