That ethos continued in 1993, when Damon and Deanne Howes headed into the wilds of south-western Tasmania (Issue 36, Oct–Dec ...

This story originally published in the September 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. The biologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton is walking up on an ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

A natural experiment in a national park in Patagonia shows how the return of a large predator can reshape an ecosystem. Long absent from Argentinian Patagonia due to over-hunting, pumas have returned ...

Major League Pickleball will have some new governing rules and some competition changes for its upcoming 2026 season. This ...

Nearly 60 square miles burned and 100,000 people were displaced. Now many are holding on to what they found—in their homes and in themselves—after the flames had passed. Where words feel most ...

A $14.5M federal investment is seeding 10 new accrediting agencies. The question: genuine innovation or duplication of what ...

Winter sports enthusiasts rejoice — snowy season is here. And with the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics sprinkling some stardust onto Italy’s mountain resorts in February, this season brings extra ...

Out-of-state visitors may not know what they’re looking at, but fans of Texas Christian University (TCU) get fired up when SuperFrog runs onto the football field. Human-size and gray, with pointy ...

Given Venezuela’s murky political future, few analysts expect a rush to invest the billions needed to pump more oil from the ...

Half a century ago, Peter Jensen launched Project Censored, in part as a response to how the Watergate break-in was covered. Richard Nixon didn’t censor the initial reporting, but he didn’t have to.

As recently as 30 years ago, many people felt confident relying on the Farmer’s Almanac to look at historical weather ...