Spring: Easter and St. Patrick’s Day draw crowds ... Short stories like kayaking around an island and climbing Ireland’s holiest mountain capture some of the country’s magic.

From that vanished cellular realm, maybe only viruses remain, like the giant stone heads on Easter Island. Discovery of the giant viruses inspired other scientists, notably Patrick Forterre at the ...

This story appears in the April 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... rats have done as much damage as human invaders. On Easter Island they’re suspected of having wiped out palm ...

Micronesia's Nan Madol is one of the very few places in the world which continues to perplex archaeologists. How and why it ...

Elemental, enduring, yet evolutionary—the world’s greatest whiskey country is transforming and imaginative new ideas and ...

If something in your gut is pulling you to consider moving to Chile from the U.S. then this article is for you. In geography ...

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The giveaway is the tangerine lichen spattered on the rocks—a clear sign that this is the Australian island state of ... Travel with National Geographic to Australia to explore the Daintree ...

It Only Encourages New York The "nature rights" movement has really hit the big time. The National Geographic Society — one of the world's largest and most influential science organizations ...

The island is part of the Tuscan Archipelago National Park, and in 2021, authorities asked Pasquali’s advisor, entomologist Leonardo Dapporto of the University of Florence to investigate whether ...

Explore the relics of failed settlements, doomed expeditions, and ancient Inuit history on Devon Island, one of the ... Belcher’s cairns at Port Refuge National Historic Site, archaeologists ...

One hour from Split harbour by ferry, Šolta is a pipsqueak of an island. It was called Solenta ... Published in the June 2025 issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK). To subscribe to National ...