The world's largest wetland, Brazil’s Pantanal is home to around 5,000 jaguars and is the best place on earth to see the ...

Among the oldest continually inhabited areas on Earth, this walled settlement ... Mexico in this 1947 National Geographic photo. The Olmec civilization, the first in Mesoamerica, offers valuable ...

The Czech capital’s hotel scene has made strides in the last 10 years. From renovated townhouses next to the main attractions ...

Adventure awaits around every bend on this storied road, which travels from the rainforest up into the craggy Rocky Mountains ...

Sierra Leone’s present beauty and past pain are intimately bound. A journey from the West African country’s jungles to its ...

The Hudson River winds through Upstate New York against a backdrop of orchards and farms that feed a local culture of ...

Seal Island, off South Africa's False Bay was once a great white hotspot—one of the few places on Earth where the sharks could be seen surging out of the water to capture prey. When the ...

Do elephants have the right to live on Earth just as we do ... to find ways that we can all live more sustainably. The National Geographic Society, committed to illuminating and protecting ...

Deep in the heart of Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Selah Abong’o froze ... The Congo Basin—Earth’s second-largest rainforest and one of its most vital ecosystems—has lost 23 million ...

which can survive some of the most extreme environments on Earth. More than 5,500 deep-sea species, such as this brittle star, reside in the area of the Pacific known as the Clarion Clipperton Zone.

The gas giant planet's spots and swirls come from massive storms that whip up prevailing winds as fast as 335 miles an hour at the equator—faster than any known winds on Earth. Jupiter is a ...