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CELEBRATING 125 YEARS
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- Explore: Weddings - National Geographic has been documenting weddings around the world for over a century.
- Explorer Moment: Enduring Voices - The Enduring Voices team visits Papua New Guinea, the country with the most linguistic diversity on Earth.
- Supervolcanoes Rocked Early Mars - The Mars we know today was shaped by massive eruptions.
- Explorer Moment: The Beauty of Beekeeping - Catherine de Medici Jaffee watches "a dance of bees and women."
- Interview With a MacArthur Genius - Cellular preservation reveals the internal function of flora from millions of years ago.
- "Islands in the Sky" - South America's tepuis reveal secrets of evolution and biodiversity.
- Mystery of Volcanic Eruption Solved? - Scientists discover a 13th-century volcanic eruption has worldwide effects.
- Explorer Moment: Azorean Whalers - With Força, Gemina Garland-Lewis learns what it takes to be an Azorean whaler.
- Instagram: The Packing Process - If only packing for an underwater expedition was really this quick...
- The Price of Precious - In the Congo, the corrupt and violent conflict mineral trade continues.
- Explorer Moment: America by Night - Annie Agnone discovers that when the sun sets, the monks rise.
- Survival Guide: Photo Finish - Corey Jaskolski recounts the tale of how he got the highest resolution underwater image in the world.
- Visions on Earth - America's National Parks as you've never seen them before.
- Explorer Moment: Ancestral Andes Mystery Solved - New genetic findings from Spencer Wells and the Genographic Project team may date back 3,700 years.
- From the Stacks: Meow Mix, 1938 - Not all the animals National Geographic has covered have been wild ones.
- Mount McKinley Is Not Actually Shrinking - Reports that Alaska's Mount McKinley is shorter than it was reflect a misunderstanding.
- Twitter: Let's Explore! - Follow @NatGeoExplorers and see what scientists are studying in the field. One finding: Geckos have weird legs.
- Explorer Moment: Sea Star - Oceanographer Sylvia Earle reflects on the Gulf of Mexico of her youth and its current threatened state.
- Instagram: A Moment in Paradise - A man sits alone, with only palm trees as companions.
- The Science of Monsters - Does Bigfoot exist? Authors of a new book introduce the scientific method to the study of mythical creatures.
- FOUND: Balloon Release - To spread political views, soldiers release balloons holding leaflets in Taiwan, January 1969.
- How to Build a Sand Dune - Sand dunes protected the community of Midway Beach, New Jersey, during Superstorm Sandy.
- Explorer Moment: Frozen in Time - Explorer Johan Reinhard recalls searching for frozen mummies on Peru's Ampato volcano.
- Explore: Fashion - For 125 years, National Geographic has had a front-row seat at the global runway, documenting everything from sparklers to swimsuits.
- Survival Guide: Held Captive - Rebels with machine guns ruin a birders' expedition in the Himalaya.
- Darth Vader, Other Weird Species Names - Researchers sometimes turn to pop culture for naming inspiration for new species, from Darth Vader to Beyoncé, Barack Obama, and beyond.
- Survival Guide: Grave Sights - Christine Lee encounters an eerie presence.
- Explorer Moment: Healing Waters - After cycling for ten days across the Chihuahuan Desert, the Hussin brothers rejuvenate in a hot spring.
- FOUND: Pairs of Pears - Ripening pears and the Kremlin are visible through lace curtains in Moscow, June 1986.
- Prehistoric Europeans Spiced Foods - Hunter gatherers in Europe used garlic mustard seeds to add some pungent spice to their foods.
- Failure Is an Option - History shows that without it, we’d be nowhere.
- New Carnivore Discovered - See photos of the fuzzy forest dweller.
- Survival Guide: The Payoff - Human migration archaeologist Jeffrey Rose learns about haggling with a local guide.
- FOUND: Entertaining Expedition - Captain Robert Scott took a gramophone to the South Pole, 1911.
- Instagram: Mount Fuji Hikers - Japanese hikers at the top of Mount Fuji watch the rising sun.
- Explorer Moment: Butting Heads - The Todagin Plateau bursts to life each fall with the activity of sheep battling for the chance to mate.
- FOUND: Taking a Dip - High school friends enjoy a thermal spring in Montana 1997.
- The Short Happy Life of a Serengeti Lion - They say that cats have nine lives, but they don’t say that about the Serengeti lion.
- Is There Life on Mars? - A chat with Curiosity's chief scientist
- Explore: Sports - Entertainment is becoming less physical and more virtual. Yet we still play physical games.
- Explorer Moment: Free-Hanging - A typical photo shoot involving a rope, a cliff, and a several-thousand-foot climb.
- Explorer Moment: On Thin Ice - Morning brings an up-close encounter with an arctic polar bear.
- Survival Guide: Orangutan to the Rescue - An orangutan leads Agustín Fuentes back to camp.
- James Cameron and the New Explorers - Explorers are wiling to take calculated risks for science.
- Explore: Transit - See how transportation has changed over 125 years.
- Then & Now: Dereck and Beverly Joubert - Dereck and Beverly Joubert have been filming and researching African wildlife since the 1980s.
- Visit the Moon Without Leaving Idaho - The proposed national park on the moon would have to compete with Idaho's lunar park.
- Explorer Moment: Traveling Prepared - If you were hiking alone across Alaska you'd cherish those packages from your mom too.
- Migrants Leave Traces in the Desert - An anthropologist documents things that migrants leave behind as they cross the Sonoran Desert.
- FOUND: Summer Snacking - A boy eats a juicy slice at a festival in Florida, December 1963.
- Daniel Kish - "Bat man" navigates primarily using echolocation.
- Explorer Moment: Rain God - Francisco Estrada-Belli feels lucky to have found this carving of the rain god Chak.
- Explore: Cold - Humans have found ways to adapt to—and even enjoy—extreme temperatures.
- Solar System Pictures - The giant planets didn’t always sit where they are today.
- First-of-Its-Kind Tomb Unearthed - Archaeologists discover 1,200-year-old tomb filled with artifacts—as well as human sacrifices.
- Field Trip on Mars - Curiosity, the Mars rover, is the next best thing to being there. Enjoy stunning images of the red planet.
- Ancient Pair Buried With Flowers - Two people buried together in Israel are among the oldest examples of using flowers to celebrate the dead.
- Nuclear Bombs Reveal Illegal Ivory - Fallout from long-ago Cold War explosions is now a forensic tool in the illegal ivory trade.
- Ocean Reserves for Antarctica? - Antarctic marine reserves could nearly double the amount of the world's ocean under protection.
- Instagram: Simon the Parrot - Ira Block captures a friend's parrot, Simon, ruffling his feathers after a walk on the beach.
- A Plan for Surplus Wind Energy - Compressed air storage could help the Pacific Northwest manage its renewable energy surplus.
- Explorer Moment: Wolverine Watch - For nearly a month Gregg Treinish and his team scaled rugged terrain to track wolverines.
- FOUND: Paratroopers - Paratroopers in training land in a field at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 1962.
- Explore: Dance - In a world that seems like it is ever-changing, we still choose to move and express ourselves through dance.
- Explorer Moment: Excavating Empathy - David Lordkipanidze discovered 1.8-million-year-old hominid remains in the Republic of Georgia.
- Survival Guide: The Sting - Sarah Parcak's run in with a scorpion will make you think twice about reaching into dark holes.
- FOUND: A Rainbow of Hats - Women try on hats in Moscow, March 1966.
- Saving Africa's Rarest Parrot - Steve Boyes talks about his work to pull the Cape parrot back from the brink of oblivion.
- Explorers Honored at the 125th Gala - The Society celebrated their efforts to lead exploration and advance scientific understanding.
- Pink Grasshopper Caught on Camera - “Special” insects rarely make it to adulthood.
- Sylvia Earle on Women in Science - Sylvia Earle reflects on her scientific career and on gender obstacles she faced along the way.
- Happy Birthday, Donald Duck! - Donald Duck's illustrator Carl Barks once said he used to "rob from the Geographic" for ideas.
- Photos: A Vanishing Whaling Culture - These Azorean whalers used 18th-century techniques to hunt sperm whales into the 20th century.
- 3-D Map of El Capitan - Tool helps scientists understand ancient cliff's origins and today's rockfalls.
- Explorer Moment: Ray of Hope - Biologist Andrea Marshall leads her team in discovering new and conserving known manta ray species.
- Remembering Tim Samaras - As families scrambled to avoid deadly tornadoes, Tim Samaras raced straight toward them.
- Instagram: Siberian Silence - After an hour of trudging through snow, I saw a fisherman sitting in the dark beside a hole in the ice.
- Explorer Moment: Naming Baby Parrots - While studying green-rumped parrotlets, Karl Berg discovered the adults appear to "name" their young.
- Twitter: Let's Explore! - Photographer Sandesh Kadur describes some of his daily challenges.
- FOUND: Catching a Glimpse of the Queen - Women use compact mirrors in packed crowd to catch sight of the queen in London, June 1966.
- Felix Baumgartner - Felix Baumgartner is the first to break the sound barrier just by ... falling.
- FOUND: Balloon Vendor - A balloon vendor runs across a road with a trailing mass of balloons in Buenos Aires, November 1921.
- Explorer Moment: Steady Hands and Fins - Photographer David Doubilet photographs freshwater ecosystems, stingrays, sharks, and more.
- Mapping Happiness Using Twitter - Researchers analyzed ten million tweets to map happiness in the United States. Napa is happy. The Rust Belt is sad.
- Explore: Heat - See some of the most extreme examples of the effects of heat on our planet.
- Timeline: Fanny Bullock Workman - In 1957 Workman scaled Pinnacle Peak in the Himalaya.
- Building Micro-Flowers - Scientists can control the self-assembly of molecules to build nano-size flowers in the lab, a new study says.
- New "Pirate" Ant Discovered - Arrrr! The pirate ant, a new species from the Philippines, comes complete with eye patches.
- Explorer Moment: Everest View - Ed Viesturs shares an early morning view from the summit of Everest.
- Dinosaur Eggs Are Missing Link - Dinosaur eggs from 150 million years ago are filling in gaps in the evolution of eggs.
- Explorer: Lost Cannibals of Europe - A Neolithic burial pit in Germany, found filled with expertly butchered human remains, challenges assumptions about cannibalism.
- FOUND: Bobbing for Apples - Four boys bob for apples, 1939.
- Earliest Known Massive Star Factory - Newfound galaxy was spawning stars a billion years earlier than scientists thought was possible.
- Explorer Moment: Solo Ascent - Dupre huddled in a snow cave for seven days, waiting for ideal conditions to ascend Mount McKinley.
- Timeline: Sputnik Spotters Unite - U.S.S.R. launches the first artifical satellite to orbit the world in 1957.
- Risk Taking - What makes an explorer face danger and press on?
- Ascending Everest: 60 Years Later - When the British expedition returned from Everest, they were presented with medals in a ceremony full of awkward moments.
- Explorer Moment: Monkeying Around - A National Geographic photographer has an extraordinary encounter with a baby monkey.
- Survival Guide: Dodging Locusts - Swarm behaviorist Iain Couzin has a toxic reaction to a locust at the same time his team runs out of food.
- FOUND: Smiling Students - Students smile through the gate of Ashley Hall in Charleston, South Carolina, 1939.
- Everest Climbing Gear—Then and Now - Find out how far gear has come since the first ascent in 1953.
- Read: Wright Brother's Letter to Nat Geo - Read flight pioneer Orville Wright's letter to photographer Luis Marden.
- FOUND: Chicago City Balcony - Fifty-two stories high, city noises fade and vistas expand. Chicago, June 1967.
- Survival Guide: Facing a Glacier - Snow leopard conservationist Shafqat Hussain describes a harrowing glacier crossing in Pakistan.
- Timeline: Megatransect - Mike Fay's 456-day hike across Africa results in 13 national parks.
- Onward and Downward - Explorer James Cameron designed and built a futuristic submersible called DEEPSEA CHALLENGER.
- Everest at 50: Celebrating the Greats - Luminaries on the state of the world's tallest peak
- FOUND: Snack Time - Treats are given to an Italian donkey, 1955
- Why Do We Love Dinosaurs? - For starters, they helped make us who we are.
- Under Unspoiled Rivers - Photographer Michel Roggo takes an intimate look at water.
- Pictures: Making Mount Rushmore - We look back at the sculpting of an American icon.
- Then and Now: Jane Goodall - Over the course of 50 years, Jane has witnessed the lives of three generations of chimpanzees.
- Timeline: Diving Suit - The diving suit was invented while George Washington was President! Dive into this underwater timeline.
- "There's No Other Tree Like It" - New pictures reveal Tasmanian giants' "maximum gnarliness."
- Element Hunters Pictures - To find a new element these days, and push the frontiers of matter, you have to create it first.
- 6 Snubbed Women in Science - These six scientists were snubbed for awards or robbed of credit for discoveries … because they were women.
- Russian Roulette With a Volcano - On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens exploded with the force of 500 Hiroshimas. National Geographic's Rowe Findley was on the scene.
- Then and Now: Rhinos - From Teddy Roosevelt hunting African rhinos, to rangers protecting them today
- Explorer Moment: 1,000-Mile Baja Trek - Carrying a surfboard and survival equipment, explorers are hiking trailless mountains.
- Then and Now: Earth's Deepest Point - How submarine technology has improved from 1960 to 2013
- Giant Mammoth Tusks of Siberia - Big finds equal big money for a growing herd of hunters.
- Explorer Moment: Capturing Kamchatka - Whitewater kayakers experience one of the last truly wild places on Earth.
- FOUND Photos: Train Spotting, '20s Style - Railroad exhibit near Baltimore, Maryland, November 1927
- Wildest Places on Earth - Just imagine what we'll find next.
- The Left Bank Ape - Take a look inside the surprising lifestyle of bonobos.
- Memorable Moments - Experience important events in National Geographic's 125-year history.
- Best Wishes From Space - NASA astronaut Kevin Ford wishes Nat Geo a happy 125th anniversary from space.
- Then & Now: Mummy Studies - See photos of Sicilian mummies and learn how examination has changed over time.
- Antarctic Expedition - Read one of the most terrifying survival stories ever.
- Risk Takers Pictures - They snare poisonous snakes, drill into glaciers, probe cat parasites—and always push the limits.
- Exploration's Highest Points - From jumping out of a gondola to summiting K2, these explorers are moving onward and upward.
- The Smallest Parts of Our World - Take a closer look at the small wonders of our world, including a gecko's toe, tiny planets, and the littlest cyborg.
- Historic Firsts - From pioneering ascents to advancements in photography
- New Age of Exploration - Our impulse to push beyond what’s known is still strong.
- World's Deepest - Explore the deepest recesses of the planet with divers, spelunkers, and submersibles.
- Explorer Moment: Canopy in the Clouds - Greg Goldsmith surveys Costa Rica's famous montane cloud forest.
Erstellt: 2013-10