Why are whales eating plastic bags? They may 'sound' like dinner. The world's plastic pollution crisis, explained The world's plastic pollution crisis, explained Dragonflies can reveal mercury ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic ... safe drinking water. —RS Lead makes headlines, but it’s not the half of it. The more we look for pollution, the more ...

Pollution can affect everything from the water we drink to the air we breathe. Test how much you know about the contaminants in the environment with this quiz.

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... from the air we breathe to both the tap and bottled water we drink, the food we eat, and the clothing we ...

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Three art students collected water from a hundred sites around Taiwan and then froze it into blocks.

As the magnitude of water shortage issues arise globally, National Geographic Explorers along with the World Freshwater Initiative highlight stories of the communities facing critical challenges.

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... and the Mayflower had been stocked with bottled water and plastic-wrapped snacks—their plastic trash would ...

This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Air pollution kills seven million people a year. Two of the chief contributors are lax vehicle emissions standards and ...

This story appears in the July 2018 issue of National Geographic ... to paper manufacturing to water use. Most have the same shape as the curve for CO2 emissions. Pollution and climate impacts ...

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. When photographer Mandy Barker returned to the English beach where she collected shells as a child, she found a ...

This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. More than a million people in China died from the effects of ambient air pollution in 2016, according to the World Health ...