This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. If you noticed them at all, they’d look like nothing more than tiny, windblown seeds floating amid the rushes at the edge of ...

A thundering conservation success story, the park also harbors almost 1,300 wild elephants; 1,800 Asiatic wild water buffalo, the largest remaining population anywhere; perhaps 9,000 hog deer; 800 ...

The Romans had a serious trash problem, though by our standards it was good-looking trash. Their problem was amphorae. They needed millions of the curvy clay jars to ship wine, olive oil, and fish ...

The students chosen to help test the FAFSA form this year come from some of the same student groups that faced the most ...

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 ...

Son of an abusive father, Frederick II blossomed when he took the throne. He attracted the great thinkers of Europe to his court while establishing Prussia as a dominant military power.

The unprecedented back-to-back hurricanes have jumbled the schedules of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, both of whom devoted part of their Thursdays to tackling questions about the storms.

This is National Wolf Awareness Week. According to a nonprofit organization known as Born Free USA (BornFreeUSA.org), this is a week to dispel misinformation spread about wolves. Gayle Anderson ...

Helene killed at least 232 people. Treating climate change as a national security problem is not a liberal position but a hardheaded realist one. Indeed, the Pentagon has explicitly said it is and ...

After the landfall of Hurricane Milton, it's really Hurricane Helene and Milton back to back and the area is now in assessment and recovery mode. Credit: The Weather Channel // Date: 10/11/2024 ...

The back-to-back hurricanes have jumbled the schedules ... would best respond to deadly natural disasters, a once-overlooked issue that has become an increasingly routine part of the job.