National Geographic Explorer Brent Stirton has photographed life inside Virunga National Park over the course of nearly two decades—chronicling stories of violence and resilience. Conservation rangers ...

From California to Kansas, these communities built by Northern European settlers and sustained by their descendants offer ...

Its Old Norse name, ‘sky-a’ or cloud island, reflects its misty peaks and rugged, storm-hit landscapes ...

Ross Edgley was 950 miles into his 1,000-mile swim around the coast of Iceland when his body began to fall apart. Trapped off the south-west coast, near Grindavik, pinned between an erupting volcano, ...

To the Inca people of what’s now South America, the total lunar eclipse indicated that a jaguar had gobbled up the moon. They ...

Expect live demonstrations and eye-opening experiments, as well as the chance to explore the hidden world of pancakes through powerful microscopy, zooming in on ingredients close up, live on stage – ...

The Philippines, a tropical paradise and an archipelago of 7,641 islands, is like a sitting duck for natural disasters. It is stuck in a super-hazardous spot in ...

The independent federal agency that provides Alaska with utilities, infrastructure and economic support is considering a ...

"Haren Arxan," Arxan's full name, means "hot holy water" in the Mongolian language. Arxan lies on the border between China ...

Washington's San Juan Islands are best experienced from the water, and few adventures in the Pacific Northwest can top hopping from one to another on a kayak.

Picking the world's most beautiful country feels borderline impossible. How do you even compare the icy drama of fjords with ...

Cafe 100, a Hilo institution since 1946, claims to be the home of the original loco moco – that gloriously indulgent ...