National Geographic’s “Indigenous Futures” issue cannot erase its history of more than a century of arguably voyeuristic and racist storytelling built on problematic imagery, a lack of ...

National Geographic stories take you on a journey that's always enlightening, often surprising and unfailingly fascinating. This month–pictures of the year.

This story appears in the December 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. They’re humble plastic-and-rubber dive fins, aged by hundreds of hours of exposure to salt water and sun—but they ...