How the world’s forests have transformed in the past two decades How the world ... these wonderlands that are still standing tall. National Geographic photographer Keith Ladzinski focused ...

The push to cut back federally protected lands is fueling a dispute rooted in our history and culture. The big question: Whose land is it? Menu of the Future: Insects, Weeds, and Bleeding Veggie ...

This story appears in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Given her body mass index, she must have diabetes. But she doesn’t.” Even to a nonmedical eye, Meche appeared ...

A version of this story appears in the May 2018 issue ... our past but are updated for a more modern feel. There’s “Earle,” named in honor of legendary oceanographer and National Geographic ...

Grosvenor, National ... issue of the magazine, in October 1888. The year 1915 witnessed the founding of the Map Department, which evolved into today’s National Geographic Maps. As in the past ...

This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. The past is never past in Sevastopol. It waves from flagpoles and drapes the parade stand on patriotic holidays.

This story appears in the December 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... return of grizzly bears and wolves. During the past 40 years cougars have continued to expand throughout the ...

Despite decades of progress, the air quality in the United States has started to decline over the past few years ... air pollution is the Air Quality Index, or AQI which rates air conditions ...

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the past three years, this magazine has run 34 stories on climate change—including a special issue devoted entirely ...

The modern salmon industry, which over the past three decades ... tuna for our March issue. The magazine thanks The Rockefeller Foundation and members of the National Geographic Society for ...

the body mass index, or BMI, has been ever-present since its introduction in the 1970s. But this metric of a “healthy weight” has come under scrutiny in the past decade or so, and with good ...

This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... of a dime appeared huge by comparison as it fluttered past. Below us, a school of 12-inch, bigeye scad—like mackerel ...