Off the coast of Marseille, National Geographic Explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau hauled up thousands of ancient clay ...

Editor’s Note: The July 2024 issue of National Geographic is a special single-topic issue titled “Indigenous Futures,” focused on how Indigenous communities around the world are charting a new ...

The magnetized needle of a conventional compass wants to align with Earth’s magnetic field—helpful, unless you’re near the ...

La Crosse native Willie Bittner is redefining what it means to be a trailblazer in the world of trail building. His work has ...

Scholars will take a fresh look at the authenticity of a rock purporting to reveal the fate of the Lost Colony of Roanoke ...

National Geographic Explorer in Residence Tara Roberts peers into the depths of the Atlantic from the boat’s edge, hovering around the open water of the Florida Keys. She leans in and plunges beneath ...

Who said expedition cruising was only for grown ups? Here are four family voyages for young explorers and conservationists.

Through her groundbreaking work with chimps in Africa, Goodall helped people understand that animals are sentient and intelligent. Renowned primatologist Jane Goodall’s decades of research into the ...