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National Geographic Explorer Topher White has created a clever way to listen for sounds of illegal logging. ... And believe it or not, cell phone reception often isn’t bad in the rain forest.
It’s more than just the Amazon. Rainforests across the tropics, from Indonesia to Central America and from Madagascar to the jungles around the Mekong River, are being cut or burned—to make ...
How Amazon forest loss may affect water—and climate—far away. A surge in deforestation under Brazil's president could "tip" the Amazon, affecting weather and water supplies—in Brazil and beyond.
A National Geographic Explorer, Peschak is working on a long-term project to document the rainforest from the water—its “aquatic spiderweb” of giant rivers with hundreds of tributaries and ...
Learn about what threatens them and what you can do to help from National Geographic. Clear-cut swaths of the Amazon rain forest in Quiandeua, Brazil, are often planted with manioc, ...
Deep in the Costa Rican rainforests, where howler monkeys and pumas roam, conservationists are working alongside travellers on new citizen science projects, introducing hi-tech processes to ...
China hopes to become a global leader in protected nature reserves, creating a network of wilderness that would be three ...
Ryan Reynolds is lending his signature voice and wit to National Geographic’s Underdogs. The docuseries shines a light on the ...
The National Geographic Society has long funded the work of Patricia Medici, who began studying lowland tapirs in 1996. ... INNOVATOR; Helping an animal vital to Brazil’s rainforest survive.
The National Geographic Society sent a photographer and a writer. The expedition confirmed on the ground all the features seen in the lidar images, along with much more. It was indeed an ancient city.
In 2022, National Geographic Society with the support of Rolex, launched the Perpetual Planet Amazon Expedition, a one-of-a-kind science and storytelling exploration of the world’s most vital ...
Though thousands of miles from Rarotonga, Brown conducts similar thermal resistance experiments on local eelgrass. She’s been ...