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This story appears in the December 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s a warm winter ... He pinpoints the cat’s current location; then we hike on to check sites where it lingered ...

8 min read This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The maps here ... 80 degrees Fahrenheit instead of the current 58. The entire Atlantic seaboard would ...

About 35 leopards live in and around this park. That’s an average of less than two square miles of habitat apiece, for animals that can easily range ten miles in a day. These leopards also live ...

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the past three ... To help keep you current on developments, we’re expanding our environmental coverage across ...

This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. By the time Hurricane ... About a third of its current rise comes from thermal expansion—from the fact that ...

This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a gentle slope ... we are merely the latest. Nick had spent more than two weeks commanding this operation ...

This story appears in the January 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Every summer ... and scanning their irises to find out if the latest face-recognition software can tell them apart.

This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. We sink into Stargate ... They worked with urgency. At the current rate of sea-level rise (possibly several feet ...