Each year, National Geographic highlights a collection of the most compelling images captured by Nat Geo photographers over the past 12 months in their "Pictures of the Year." For 2025, Nat Geo ...

Visitors centers: Everglades has four: Ernest F. Coe near Miami, Guy Bradley in Flamingo, Gulf Coast in Everglades City, and Shark Valley off the Tamiami Trail highway. All are open daily; check ...

Around 4,500 years ago, a structure of enormous stones aligned with solar patterns was erected in England’s Salisbury Plain by a civilization without metal tools, horsepower, or wheels. Many of the ...

Each time National Geographic Explorer and photographer Kiliii Yüyan returns to the Arctic, he navigates through a “forever landscape.” “You can hear the sled dogs, you can just smell the wind—it’s ...

For National Geographic photographers, work assignments can take them anywhere from the sea floor to a summertime Santa Claus camp in Missouri. In the photo seen above, wildlife photographer David ...

It’s hard to understand how people in ancient Rome could sit in the stands of an amphitheater and watch someone get beaten to death for sport. The ancient spectacle of gladiator fights perhaps was not ...

No assignment happens alone: Nat Geo photographers tell stories of their amazing collaborators in the field. Zamira Loebis (also known as Tatap, or Tap) sits across from photographer John Stanmeyer in ...

Every day, fake pictures are getting more realistic. Today, anyone can access a web-based program like Midjourney or Dall-e and create artificial or manipulated images without much effort. The good ...

A scuba diver until age 79, Georgette Apol Douwma photographed reefs around the world and then transformed her images into dazzling kaleidoscopic designs. Photographer Georgette Apol Douwma’s ...

It's the first sensation we feel, our most primal connection to others. Can implants and electrical signaling replicate the experience of touch? Research teams are exploring the possibilities—with ...

The electric vehicle (EV) business is booming. Globally, 14 percent of new cars sold in 2022 were electric, an increase from nine percent in 2021 and just five percent in 2020. Through the first ...

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer than you might think. Nuclear fusion in the sun occurs when hydrogen is ...