The U.S. built a covert Cold War base under a Greenland glacier. Its secrets are now being revealed.
What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...
Celebrating National Geographic Day: A tribute to exploration and discovery
National Geographic Day, celebrated annually, honors the spirit of exploration, discovery, and understanding the world around ...
8 activities to do under the stars in Scotland
Adventure doesn’t stop after dark in Scotland, from twilight kayaking along the River Tay to pitch-black bungee jumps in the ...
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Of Mammoths and Men
15 min read This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. One last chance ... Yakutiya’s Ust-Yanskiy District, which covers a swath of tundra three times the ...
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What drew these 1,300 perfect circles on the sea floor? We may finally know.
The Mediterranean Sea covers about a million square miles ... This story appears in the February 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine. The nonprofit National Geographic Society, committed ...
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Too Young to Wed
This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Because the wedding ... a slender gray-haired farmer with a straight back and a drooping mustache. This farmer, whom ...
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Sea turtles are surviving—despite us
This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. To see all that ... dig nests using back appendages that scoop and toss sand almost like hands, and squeeze salt ...
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Life probably exists beyond Earth. So how do we find it?
This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. In her office on ... tiny patch of sky—about as much as you can cover with your hand with your arm outstretched.
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How Grand Prismatic Spring Became Yellowstone's Social Media Darling
Grand Prismatic Spring ascended from a beautiful backwater spot to the second most popular destination in Yellowstone ...
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Scotland's top 'activities to do under the stars' crowned by National Geographic
Legendary travel publication National Geographic has shared a new list of the top "eight activities to do under the stars in ...
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What archaeology is telling us about the real Jesus
Which is why, in my repeated visits to Jerusalem, I keep coming back to the Monastery of ... appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.