National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore is halfway through a multiyear effort to document our planet’s incredible ...

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WASHINGTON, DC — Californian Priya Talreja, a Fremont native has been named one of just five researchers nationwide to receive the highly coveted 2025 Fulbright-National Geographic Award. The $20,000 ...

These over-50 champs—and a growing body of research—show what we gain by staying active later in life. Nora Langdon, 82, started powerlifting in her 60s and quickly got hooked. Over the past two ...

According to NatureServe, an organization that keeps tabs on North American flora and fauna, more than 7,000 of those species ...

Scientists say that the fires ravaging the western United States are burning differently these days. Documenting the aftermath requires a new approach as well. In a conventional photograph of ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

This story originally published in the July 1906 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. Looking back to that period, many years ago, when the finger ...

The striking image earned South African photographer Wim van den Heever the Natural History Museum in London's top honor Dave Quinn is the Deputy News Director at PEOPLE. He has been working at the ...