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This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A mother kangaroo and her joey hop across Main Street to graze on a scruff of grass growing near a gas pump.

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This story appears in the March 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Fairy tales can come true, but sometimes it takes a few decades. As a city kid, Elena Anosova heard seemingly tall tales ...

(Sources: Benny Goller and Doug Altshuler, University of British Columbia, Vancouver) This story appears in the July 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In pursuit of the world’s ...

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 December 2024 issue of National Geographic magazine. Esther Horvath has been an Explorer since 2018. The San Francisco-based photographer has traveled around the globe to ...

This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. In this time-lapse video, a 436-cubic-meter surface slick sample yields a profusion of organic and synthetic debris.

This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. “You need to have your throat cut out and your decomposing, bug-infested body fed to wild pigs.” An anonymous ...

This story appears in the February 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1418 the town fathers of Florence finally addressed a monumental problem they’d been ignoring for decades ...

This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine and is part of National Geographic’s Future of Food initiative, a special five-year project that seeks to show how ...

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