National Geographic stories take you on a journey that's always enlightening, often surprising and unfailingly fascinating. This month–a new age of discovery is already here.

National Geographic photographer Keith Ladzinski focused on the positive when it came to forest fires: the solutions people are working on.

In print, online, and in a broadcast series hosted by actor Will Smith, scientists and explorers journey to extreme places and explain curious phenomena. How one image captures 21 hours of a ...

From cardiovascular disease and obesity to a weakened immune system, the side effects of stress can be life-altering. But there may be a way to prevent those outcomes. This questionnaire—first ...

Follow the monarch on its 3,000-mile journey across the continent Follow the monarch on its 3,000-mile journey across the continent Monarchs are actually toxic—and 5 other amazing butterfly ...

For centuries, the Seine River has been Paris’s dumping ground. A billion-dollar cleanup is trying to make it swimmable again. The history of Paris is inextricably linked to the river that flows ...

This story appears in the June 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On Thursday ... “We are working with the current from the Aurora Borealis alone,” a Boston telegrapher messaged ...

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 ...

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 January 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the winter of ... forces in our environment—wind, water, current—from threat to opportunity.

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.