In subzero winds, hypothermia announces itself in small, easy-to-miss ways. Here’s what one Nat Geo Explorer does to combat it in some of the coldest places on Earth.

Can the cruise industry hit its carbon-neutral targets? A new generation of ultra-low emission vessels may hold the answer.

WASHINGTON — Earth's average temperature last year hovered among one of the three hottest on record, while the past three years indicate that warming could be speeding up, international climate ...

Will Smith is taking on a daring journey - navigating all seven continents - in this National Geographic series. Over the course of 100 days, Smith will travel across the planet in an inspiring, seven ...

In the last two years, National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek traversed the Chinese countryside, marched along the Korean Demilitarized Zone and fended off grizzly bears in Alaska. Now, his ...

Scientists have uncovered a missing feedback in Earth’s carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice age. As the planet warms, nutrient-rich runoff fuels plankton blooms that ...

The December issue of the magazine highlights 25 images chosen by editors as the most poignant and stirring photographs of 2025. FEMA denies aid to Arizona counties after disastrous monsoon floods Man ...

Aviation's climate impact is partly due to contrails—condensation that a plane streaks across the sky when it flies through icy and humid layers of the atmosphere. Contrails trap heat that radiates ...

A large-scale model study now shows how the global food system can contribute to the fight against global warming. It identifies 23 levers, calculates their effectiveness and concludes: a decisive ...

The potential role of solar geoengineering strategies in addressing global warming is a matter of current scientific and societal debate. Some strategies could reduce the surface temperature of Earth, ...

National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions will retire two vessels built in the 1980s and charter an Aurora Expeditions ship for three years, starting in 2027. The chartered ship, the Greg Mortimer, ...