A frequent contributor to National Geographic in print and online, Elizabeth Royte covers consumption and waste, food, and agriculture. She’s the author of three books.

“We’re trying to preserve it how he would have.” This story appears in the February 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine.

Charlie made a papier-mâché sage grouse—think kind of like a piñata—to cover everything up ... what will readers in National Geographic magazine actually see? You know, Ronan will ...

Learn more about the Society's support of Explorers. This story appears in the July 2022 issue of National Geographic magazine.

We wandered slowly, without hurry, in Calanques National Park, where Jacques Cousteau ... aka the mauve stinger. Stinging cells cover its tentacles and entire body. But the sting of a black ...

So is an army of snowboarders and skiers, all hoping that next winter they’ll get in a few more runs. A version of this story appears in the April 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine.

These objects cover such a wide range of shapes ... This story appears in the September 2021 issue of National Geographic magazine.

Maybe somebody many, many years from now goes back and reads about this and says, Hey, that guy was pretty good. This story appears in the November 2021 issue of National Geographic magazine.

Climate change is drying out rivers, supercharging wildfires, raising seas, and altering the seasons as we know them. These disastrous changes to the environments we depend on for food and shelter ...

The issue features Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles, Gabby Thomas, Toni Breidinger, Anna Hall, Ali Truwit, Caroline Marks, Cameron ...

The “camera car” had been built by the National Geographic Society's Exploration Technology Lab engineers but never used. Winter saw its potential to capture that looking-upward view and asked ...