For an alternative to the fast-paced capital and its crowded tourist haunts, consider the country’s small towns, shaped by ...

Whether it’s an emperor penguin launching from the sea, a playful Adélie penguin or a colony of king penguins, these globe-spanning seabirds inspire awe and conservation.

Hidden beneath the waters surrounding Japan’s Yonaguni island are the towering ruins of a 10,000-year-old city built by a ...

Nestled in the eastern Pacific Ocean some 1,000km off the coast of Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands are as otherworldly and ...

PHOTOGRAPH BY Paul Nicklen, National ... Geographic’s Secrets of the Penguins series, he went colony-hopping in Antarctica, Namibia, South Africa, Ecuador, Argentina, and South Georgia island.

When El Niño’s warm water in the central and eastern Pacific displaces ... May 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine. Writer Rene Ebersole traveled to the Galápagos Islands for this ...

From scaling one of North America’s longest via ferratas to rafting the ‘Grizzly River’, here are some of the best outdoor ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek has traveled many miles across land on foot since 2013, when he began his long ...

DIVING DEEPChinstrap and gentoo penguins, shown here near Danco Island in Antarctica ... PHOTOGRAPH BY THOMAS PESCHAK, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC IMAGE COLLECTION Borboroglu worked quickly, assessing ...

Photograph by Diane Cook and Len Jenshel, National Geographic Friendship Trees, Yoshino Cherry, National Mall and Memorial Parks, Tidal Basin, Washington, D.C. Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, a writer ...

a deep-sea mapping company based in the Channel Islands. Titanic: The Digital Resurrection, a new National Geographic documentary streaming on Disney+, tells the story of the effort. It is the ...

This is the first confirmed live observation of the colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, in its natural habitat.The team on Schmidt Ocean Institute's Research Vessel Falkor (too) captured ...