Dan Buettner's iconic National Geographic cover story transformed our idea of what makes for a long, healthy life. It's now ...

When George Shiras published his wildlife photographs in National Geographic it transformed the medium with his novel use of ...

From getting stuck in nets to eating plastic that they think is food, creatures worldwide are dying from material we made.

Siberian region known as the Sakha Republic, Yakutsk is widely identified as the world’s coldest city. “No other place on ...

Families in the Philippines receive billions from the ‘new heroes’—nannies in Hong Kong, sailors in the Arctic, and domestic ...

Our first in-house map was produced during World War I. By the Second World War, the White House was asking for them by name.

Elusive, obscure, and eclipsed in popularity by their larger cousins, small cats are amazing, high-performance predators.

Our writer spent 30 hours traveling with arctic wolves and gained a new appreciation for these predators of the tundra.

Spending time with friends and family—or signing up for a recreational sports league team—could pay dividends down the road. Maintaining social ties seems to work like mental exercise, by promoting ...

Prasenjeet Yadav had one goal: capture the perfect image of a pseudo-melanistic tiger for his story on India’s Similipal ...

In 1976, National Geographic asked actor Robert Redford to follow in the footsteps of the Wild West's greatest outlaws. This is what he saw.

As Taylor Swift reunites with Red collaborators Max Martin and Shellback for her upcoming album The Life of a Showgirl, we revisit our Nat Geo Kids 2012 interview with the artist around the release of ...