Protecting and restoring Earth’s rainforests is crucial to our planet’s survival. That’s why National Geographic Society ... regions systematically. The science indicates that each ...

We all know cacti store water—but to survive, they migrate their flowers, and so much more. Scientists want to copy the resilient plants' methods to help engineer our future.

Highly acclaimed as a National Geographic Certified Educator, Joan Ava Gillman leverages over four decades of experience in ...

A 2010 satellite image shows dozens of golden islands covered with strange parallel lines shining among the shallow waters of ...

Whitney and Gove came to ocean science and Hawaii by happenstance ... The nonprofit National Geographic Society, working to conserve Earth’s resources, helped fund this article.

A small Arctic research station in Norway has emerged as a scientific hub, and it’s home to an increasingly female-led ...

Kerby is a trained ecologist, geographer and photographer whose career has largely been centered on a quest to understand nature’s patterns and sharing his discoveries. Phenology, or the seasonal ...

Understanding such patterns is critically important in the Arctic, which is warming faster than anywhere on Earth. "Caribou and muskoxen ... The study was funded by the U.S. National Science ...

Robin George Andrews is a freelance science journalist based in London. His work has appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, The Atlantic, Scientific American, Atlas Obscura, and more. He ...

In 1986, humanity gained its first close look into the secrets of Uranus thanks to the Voyager 2 probe. This probe, after a ...

“Unfortunately, climate change on the one earth we have is like a giant experiment with a sample size of one,” Oberhauser says, “not an ideal situation.” For now, in Mexico, Sáenz-Romero ...

Oracle bones were often made from tortoise shells, as in this photograph, and from the shoulder blades of oxen. According to archaeologists, a fortune teller would carve a question into the bone with ...