From an elusive jaguar to an industrious beaver, photographers captured iconic animal moments around the world.

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A sperm whale floats amid shards of polar pack ice, dead and decomposing, mouth hanging open. When photographer Roie Galitz captured the scene with a drone, the image was so arresting that it took a ...

Each time National Geographic Explorer and photographer Kiliii Yüyan returns to the Arctic, he navigates through a “forever landscape.” “You can hear the sled dogs, you can just smell the wind—it’s ...

A native of Spain, Fernando was the director of graphics at El Correo in Bilbao—a newspaper renowned for its visual journalism—when National Geographic called. “They offered me a job, and I thought, ...

To create these landscapes, Wilkes found a vantage point and photographed all day and all night. He then chose a number of photos to merge digitally into a composite image to tell a story about a ...

Getting to zero carbon emissions won’t save the world. We’ll have to also remove carbon from the air—a massive undertaking unlike anything we’ve ever done. Scientists monitor a mesocosm—an ...

And now more cities are implementing curbside composting to help them meet their sustainability goals. New York is currently rolling out a mandatory composting program that will soon be effect in ...

Mounting evidence shows that many of today’s whole foods aren't as packed with vitamins and nutrients as they were 70 years ago, potentially putting people's health at risk. Vegetables like this ...

The U.S. Surgeon General has called for adding cancer warnings to alcohol labels—as scientific evidence mounts that even moderate drinking may be more harmful than we thought. A glass of red wine a ...

On a remote island in the Pacific, Will Smith descends into the heart of an active volcano to investigate sounds beyond human hearing. Will discovers that everything on our planet creates its own ...

Ahmed Ibrahim Yousef, 75, helps deliver a baby camel to a malnourished and dehydrated mother in a village near the border with Somaliland in the Horn of Africa. The carcasses of animals that died from ...