For as long as they worked in the smuggling tunnels beneath the Gaza Strip, Samir and his brother Yussef suspected they might one day die in them. When Yussef did die, on a cold night in 2011, his end ...

The geology in this part of the Tibetan Plateau is not granite, like the Sierras, but seabed, like our Rockies, so its ...

Poverty, violence, and cultural traditions oppress millions of girls around the world, but some are finding hope through education.

Behind weathered wooden doors in Bangkok’s Chinatown, entrepeneurs are transforming their ancestral homes into fashionable ...

Read a National Geographic magazine article about food contamination and get information, facts, and more about foodborne ...

Tens of millions of visitors throng the canal-ringed neighborhoods of Amsterdam every year, savoring meals at its Michelin-starred restaurants and soaking up the culture at its wo ...

When the fiercest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic is bearing down on you, a salvaged armchair under a wood-and-tin awning might seem a poor choice of shelter. But that's where Don E. ("I'd ...

Read a National Geographic magazine article about how flowering plants appeared during the Cretaceous period and get ...

As crowds soar, wildlife can suffer. And for the park's human visitors, the idea of getting away from it all gets tougher.

This story appears in the September 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. For sheer breadth of freakish anatomical features, the chameleon has few rivals. A tongue far longer than its body, ...

Read a National Geographic magazine article about the fossil trade, and get information, facts, and more about the big business of dinosaur bones.

On the 150th anniversary of the Great Emancipator’s assassination, Americans along the route of his funeral train reflect on ...