Comprising less than 5% of the world's population ... This article was created in partnership with the National Geographic Society. Oriente Region, Ecuador — Pushed forward by a chugging ...

In 2014 French researchers measured an unofficial 142°F in the shade here—a potential world record ... A frequent contributor to National Geographic in print and online, Elizabeth Royte ...

In this 17th-century map, with top facing south ... At the time, Europeans were grappling with a sea change in their vision of the world, one that was expanding dramatically with increasing ...

This story was adapted from the National Geographic book 100 Beaches of a Lifetime: The World's Ultimate Shorelines, by Freda Moon and Ashley Harrell.

How the world’s forests have transformed in the ... and fragility of these wonderlands that are still standing tall. National Geographic photographer Keith Ladzinski focused on the positive ...

The winners impressed by demonstrating there are new ways to show and celebrate the world through their unique photography. Pat Riddell, editor of National Geographic Traveller (UK), said ...

Microsoft Flight Simulator is renowned not only as a flight experience but also for creating one of the most realistic digital maps of the entire planet. The journey began decades ago, long before ...

Photograph by JOEL SARTORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTO ARK 1987: Montreal protocol World leaders agree to phase out ozone-depleting substances just a few years after the ozone hole is found.

But the new findings, published in June in Scientific Reports, reveal that two of the new species are among the most endangered primates in the world ... a National Geographic explorer and ...

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 ...

(see a video on APR by the National Geographic Society ... We associate this part of the world with rugged individualism, but brandings are remarkably communitarian rituals, willing exchanges ...

Atop Mount Nemrut lies what some call the eighth wonder of the world: a religious sanctuary of 10 colossal statues surrounding a mound believed to hold the tomb of an ancient king. These ...