In a new series from National Geographic, the actor travels the world—and rethinks what it means to pursue a life well lived.

After embarking on a globe-trotting adventure across the seven continents to seek out the most remote stories out there from ...

In his new National Geographic series Pole to Pole, the actor ventures deep into the Amazon in search of creatures whose venom may yield new life-saving drugs.

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 ...

Will Smith travels "Pole to Pole" across all seven continents in National Geographic's new docu-series, premiering January 13 ...

National Geographic Explorer Paolo Verzone provides a rare peek inside a stellarator, an experiment that aims to give the world near-limitless clean energy. When in operation, this space inside the ...

The seven-episode docuseries, five years in the making, premieres on Tuesday, Jan. 13.

Climate change is speeding the spread of global pathogens. Can an early-warning system for animal viruses help stop pandemics before they start? During an expedition to the Southern Ocean, microbial ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

Dominica fully lives up to its self-appointed nickname as the "Caribbean’s Nature Island." In a region that brims with pristine beaches requiring nothing more but to show up and relax, Dominica ...

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 ...

And they find one: a female green anaconda about 16 to 17 feet long, “pure muscle.” The Waorani secure the giant ...