This story appears in the December 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Assateague Island ... and thanks to a brisk wind, free of smoke from the wildfire burning just over the crest of ...

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This story appears in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a crisp January ... Caruso was calmly reading an article about the end of the world in an Italian version of a ...

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. When I met the cyborg ... a vitamin-rich protein. In a recent article in the Scientist, John Hawks, a ...

This story appears in the February 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1418 the town ... to be cleared away free of charge by the money-grubbing citizenry after the dome was complete.

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a world that ... in the dark, oxygen-free environment of a commercial landfill or in the cool waters of the ...

I got a piece of the answer from the world's largest laser, the National Ignition Facility ... inexhaustible, pollution-free electricity. "NIF will produce more power in a one-nanosecond laser ...

8 min read This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The maps here ... we’ll very likely create an ice-free planet, with an average temperature of perhaps ...

"Most animals don’t get anything free from nature," he added "but as some pterosaurs and birds got larger, they stumbled upon evolutionary benefits from soaring, making use of a free energy source.

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a laboratory ... microplastics have chemical impacts, because free-floating pollutants that wash off the land ...

Cory Richards has photographed nine stories for the magazine. His previous article, “Myanmar’s Toughest Climb,” ran in September 2015. Society Grant Your National Geographic Society ...