Around the world, trail designers are quietly employing surprising techniques to engineer awe. You’ve probably felt it without even knowing why. Inside the creative science that’s transforming your ...

January doesn’t skimp on cosmic sightseeing. The month begins with a vibrant supermoon, continues with the year’s best Jupiter view, and ends with multiple moon-planet conjunctions. Aurora activity ...

Grand Canyon National Park is preparing an adaptive approach for the seasonal reopening of the North Rim, evaluating ...

Seaweed bathing in Ireland, a trek through Africa’s first designated wilderness quiet park—we asked National Geographic staff ...

From Yosemite’s Badger Pass to little-known slopes in Washington State and Ohio, three parks offer a rare chance to ski ...

A natural experiment in a national park in Patagonia shows how the return of a large predator can reshape an ecosystem. Long absent from Argentinian Patagonia due to over-hunting, pumas have returned ...

A new study overturns previous findings that domestic cats originated thousands of years earlier. An African wildcat (Felis lybica) rests on a rock in Kruger National Park, South Africa. So far, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Senate introduced a three-bill appropriations package that includes the Fiscal Year 2026 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill. The bill ...

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 ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - The federal government is making some changes for visitors heading to national parks in 2026. Just under one million people have visited Saguaro National Park. Many of those ...

This take on Japan’s most popular itinerary celebrates quieter corners as well as big hitters, delivering a quintessential taste of the country — from shrines to matcha tea, volcanic peaks to rich ...