In order to understand the massive changes afoot in the warming polar regions, oceanographer Allison Fong is hunting for the ...

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 ...

In the rugged terrain where Mexico and the United States meet, a border wall is just the latest obstacle fragmenting habitats ...

The American photographer recalls the moment a big cat walked into her scene during a wildlife workshop in Ecuador ...

Picturesque villages, majestic animals and candid human moments - captured around the world by the photographers of this year ...

Filmmaker Bertie Gregory's new documentary special captures the extreme challenges facing the world's fastest land animal.

From an elusive jaguar to an industrious beaver, photographers captured iconic animal moments around the world. While monitoring the burrow of a rare giant armadillo in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, ...

Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev successfully installed the first ICARUS experiment antenna on the outside hull of the International Space Station during a nearly eight-hour space walk in ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). St Lucia offers an ideal mix of comfortable hotels, dreamy Caribbean beaches and active adventures for families — and it’s a ...

You’ve heard of birds flying south to escape the winter, but do you know how chipmunks spend the colder months? Eastern chipmunks dig their burrows near decaying logs or stone piles, carving out a ...

This story originally published in the September 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. The biologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton is walking up on an ...