National Geographic Magazine

The journey of young Charles Darwin aboard His Majesty's Ship Beagle, during the years 1831-36, is one of the best known and most neatly mythologized episodes in the history of science. As the legend goes...

Poised to play a pivotal new role in the Middle East, Syria struggles to escape its dark past.

Long at the mercy of the monsoons, some Indian farmers are sculpting hillsides to capture runoff, enriching their land and lives.

Today on All Things Considered, host Melissa Block speaks with National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen about his new book, Polar Obsession. Listen here.

Senators are elected to represent their states, but we may be the first to ask them to do it on a square the size of a cocktail napkin. To celebrate Geography Awareness Week (November 15 – 21), which this ...

It is the simplest, most natural of acts, akin to breathing and walking upright. We sit down at the dinner table, pick up a fork, and take a juicy bite, obliv­ious to the double helping of global ramifications on our plate.

Usually when I walk by the office of senior graphics editor Fernando Baptista, I see him hunkered over a drafting table, sketching in pencil or watercolor. A few months ago, I saw him sculpting in clay...

There's something growing inside our October issue, and it's not a redwood. It's a pumpkin. And you won't believe how much it weighs now.

The lizard moved in frightened rhythms across the sun-blasted stone. A few quick steps, a turn of its boxy head. Then the stillness, the absolute zero, of a creature that sensed it was being hunted. All around, jagged spires and flutes rose like the towers of some Gothic cathedral, silent and empty.

Miles of concrete and barbed wire divided Germany and separated East and West Berlin for 28 years until the symbolic falling of the wall began in November 1989.

A flash of electric blue—that's as intimately as most people will ever know the common kingfisher. But it suffices. . "Everyone in England who has ever seen one will remember where they saw it," says photographer and kingfisher thrall Charlie Hamilton James.

Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China’s First Emperor. An exhibition at the National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C.

There are no political boundaries when it comes to recipes, but no surprise, either, to food being a sticking point (dare we say a flashpoint in a pan?) for nationalist rivalries and tension