Stretching almost 1,500 miles, the Great Barrier Reef is so vast that just 20% has been surveyed. With tourism funding ...

Ina Garten, otherwise known as the Barefoot Contessa, is back for the seventh season of her Emmy-Award winning series, Be My ...

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Throughout our history, the magazine’s storytelling has relied on photographers—and on artists such as Fernando Gomez Baptista.

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Highlighting the best wildlife photography across land and sea, these the winners photos from this year's Wildlife ...

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer ...

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Maynard Owen Williams was National Geographic's first foreign correspondent, and in 1923 he was on hand for an event the ...

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