Zion National Park, with its soaring sandstone cliffs and emerald pools, lies just 30 miles to the northwest. The psychedelic hoodoos of Bryce Canyon National Park are an hour’s drive away. The North ...

Sacred sites have long lured travelers seeking a connection to something bigger. In a world grappling with digital overload, ...

Welcome to Nat Geo Your Shot: National Geographic’s global community for aspiring visual storytellers. Find the community on Instagram @NatGeoYourShot and follow along for hashtag challenges ...

Stacks of past issues of National Geographic magazines against a white background. In Conkin’s novel Community Board, the lead character retreats from an imploded marriage to her parents' empty ...

They’re audible long before they’re visible, excited chatter echoing up through the thickly forested slopes of the canyon. It’s slick underfoot from the morning dew, and every inexpert ...

While investigating the origin of the rings, National Geographic Explorer and photographer Laurent Ballesta and his team found a riot of colorful sea life, including yellow coral that is seldom ...

Since 2005, National Geographic Explorer Zeb Hogan has been searching the world to find the world’s largest fish. In mid-June, a team he leads in Cambodia got a call from a fisherman named Moul ...

Discovering the happiest cities in the USA involves looking at various factors, including quality of life, economic stability ...

Diagnoses have climbed by 175 percent in just the last decade—with the greatest increases in girls and women. Here’s how our understanding of autism is changing. Girls and women are being ...

A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney. A colorized computed tomography (CT) scan of the brain revealing blood ...

In recent decades the dome has emerged as a potent “national as well as a religious symbol” for Palestinians, explains Palestinian philosopher Sari Nusseibeh. In his book-strewn office north ...