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

Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests. This sandal woven from grasses and twigs, called an agobía, is somewhere between 727 and 771 years old, ...

The rhythmic click of needles. The softness of yarn running over fingertips. The satisfying logic of knit, purl, repeat. Knitting—and other so-called “grandma hobbies”—is making a comeback, especially ...

What do the Chrysler Building (New York), Palais de Chaillot (Paris), and Christ the Redeemer Statue (Rio de Janeiro) have in common? As bold icons of art deco, they illustrate the far-flung influence ...

Power-hungry data centres run hot, so one Chinese company is planning to submerge a pod of servers in the sea off Shanghai with hopes of solving computing's energy woes. On a wharf near the city, ...

Biblical archaeologists are using ancient texts and modern technology to uncover possible clues to one of Christianity's biggest mysteries. Thomas Cole's 1828 oil painting entitled "The Garden of Eden ...

Known to some as the “Freshwater Everest,” if you want to explore this mountain, you don’t go up, you go down. In the middle of Lake Superior, near the boundary between Canadian and US waters, sits ...

Remote and less-traveled Great Basin National Park will be without one of its top attractions — a marble and limestone wonder known as the Lehman Caves — until at least late spring of next year, the ...

It was a journey full of firsts, as are most trips to the tiny Pacific nation of Palau. Before my first swim with jellyfish and my first leap from a paddleboard into an underwater cave, my passport ...

G Adventures and National Geographic Expeditions have further strengthened their decade-long partnership with the launch of a new premium lifestyle collection, National Geographic Signature with G ...

Venture north of the capital as coastal vineyards, surf beaches and historical sites converge at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. The coastal region is dotted with traditional villages such as Mata ...

Between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo lies the Costa Verde, or Green Coast, a ribbon of wild Atlantic rainforest, time-forgotten beaches and historic towns whose Portuguese-era architecture ranks among ...