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.

From groundbreaking river cruises to small-group adventures at sea, here’s a look at the year’s unmissable new voyages.

The Arctic is home to pristine artifacts. A few archeologists are rushing to find them, and the critical clues they can offer modern culture, before climate change destroys them forever.

From basic techniques to the kit you need, plus where to go to capture the best pictures, here’s how to get started in astrophotography.

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U.S. and Japanese forces fought over the Aleutian Islands during World War II. Relics of this conflict can still be found on seafloor today, and the Indigenous people who used to call the islands home ...

Recent concerns about contaminants in black-colored plastics sparked consumer concerns, but there’s more than one reason to ...

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 ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic ... there continents? Oceans and clouds? All these questions can be answered, if you can extract the light of a planet from ...

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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.

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