Once considered remote and pristine, the Arctic is now succumbing to a tide of plastic. In Norway, a monumental effort is underway to curb its spread.

This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... some like the ocean surface, others the depths, and a few prefer freshwater. What unites them is that they ...

The ocean on ... that shines a light on the exploitation of wildlife by donating to Wildlife Watch. Wildlife Watch is an investigative reporting project between National Geographic Society and ...

The National Geographic Society’s important work has been hidden in the shadow of its parent company. Now, it’s banking on a major ad campaign to raise its profile.

A recent push by the NASA Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to shine a light into that darkness has been illuminating, to say the least.

Donald Trump ranted about Joe Biden ’s 625 million acre offshore drilling ban in the Atlantic and wrongly claimed it covered almost “the whole ocean.” At such a critical moment in US history, we need ...

President-elect Donald Trump said this week he intends to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” once he takes ...

In Belize’s Actun Tunichil Muknal cave, a sacred Maya site, plants grow in darkness, sparking concerns about how tourism affects its fragile ecosystem.

The arrival of 2025 marks the Year of the Blue Snake in the sexagenary cycle. The snake, the sixth sign among the 12 Asian ...

Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei peered through his newly improved 20-power homemade telescope at the planet Jupiter. He ...

Other fires, like the 2023 Maui fires and the 2017 Tubbs Fire in Northern California, have caused hydrants to go dry in the past, and it seems L.A. will need to go back to the drawing board if these ...