This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the digital age, when it’s easy to manipulate a photo, it’s harder than ever to ensure that the images we publish ...

This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. In this time-lapse ... plastic.A dollop of surface water from the English Channel contains a shrimplike krill, about ...

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This story appears in the January 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Jutting deep into the world’s busiest oil shipping channel, the peninsula lies only 24 miles from Iran ...

This story appears in the January 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. The eagle is a national symbol, not just for Americans, but for Germans like me and many other people too ...

This story appears in the December 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s a warm winter day in southern California, and busloads of tourists are pulling into an overlook above Beverly ...

This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Charles Darwin was fascinated by the spiders that landed on the H.M.S. Beagle nearly two centuries ago. Spiders don’t ...

This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. I’ve come back to check on a baby. Just after dusk I’m in a car lumbering down a muddy road in the rain, past rows of ...

This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. To a degree unimaginable a decade ago, the intensely personal subject of gender identity has entered the public square.