As NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC reported in June 2004 ... spewed by coal and other fossil fuels is warming the planet, as this magazine reported last September. Cutting loose from that worry is enticing.

This story appears in the December 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Assateague Island ... and thanks to a brisk wind, free of smoke from the wildfire burning just over the crest of ...

This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a gentle slope above a trail junction in Sequoia National Park, about 7,000 feet above sea level in the southern ...

This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. We sink into Stargate ... Nearly oxygen free, blue holes preserve bones intact. We instinctively associate life ...

This story appears in the January 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific ...

This story appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Your National Geographic Society membership helped fund recent excavations at Holmul and La Corona, Guatemala.

This story appears in the May 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Cheryl Dinges is ... Czeisler wrote in a 2006 Harvard Business Review article. Starting in 2004, Czeisler published ...

This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Editor’s note ... while Israelis shopped in the tax-free bazaars of Gaza City, Khan Younis, and especially Rafah ...

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 ...

I got a piece of the answer from the world's largest laser, the National Ignition Facility ... inexhaustible, pollution-free electricity. "NIF will produce more power in a one-nanosecond laser ...

"Most animals don’t get anything free from nature," he added "but as some pterosaurs and birds got larger, they stumbled upon evolutionary benefits from soaring, making use of a free energy source.