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. with the NAT GEO KIDS or LITTLE KIDS ...

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 ...

Pat Riddell, editor of National Geographic Traveller (UK), said: “Our competition goes from strength to strength, with this year’s easily one of the strongest yet. World-class photography ...

With that stop, NomadMania, a group that verifies world travel records with more stringent criteria than Guinness, verified ...

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 ...

This interactive app from Ahmad Barclay flips that paradigm. It turns a map of any place into a slide puzzle game. The game ...

(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 ...