Greenland’s remote eastern fjords are a place of elemental beauty, where glaciers carve through the land, musk oxen roam ...

Picture an animal that huddles up with others when stressed, babysits its young, hangs out around relatives, and gathers in big groups every year. Did you imagine a rattlesnake? For a long time, ...

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 ...

New cruise ships and new ways to experience favorite destinations top our list of 2026's best family vacation ideas.

From an elusive jaguar to an industrious beaver, photographers captured iconic animal moments around the world. While monitoring the burrow of a rare giant armadillo in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, ...

The National Geographic Endurance is a comfortable base for explorations in icy waters, whether in the Arctic or in the ...

A natural experiment in a national park in Patagonia shows how the return of a large predator can reshape an ecosystem. Long absent from Argentinian Patagonia due to over-hunting, pumas have returned ...

Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev successfully installed the first ICARUS experiment antenna on the outside hull of the International Space Station during a nearly eight-hour space walk in ...

Creativity has long reigned in Swedish Lapland — where the Sámi historically used their ingenuity to survive the cold, dark ...

By John Cannon The year 2025 might be seen as one of backsliding when it comes to tackling the environmental crises that face ...

After 40 years of oil drilling proposals, hearings, debates, votes, vetoes, lawsuits, environmental studies, protests, petitions and even failed lease sales, there are those who won’t let go of the ...

The Arctic just experienced its hottest year since record-keeping began more than a century ago, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Wednesday. Rising temperatures in the ...