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Photographer Michael Nichols captured Jane Goodall as she studied chimpanzee behavior in the wild in 1990. “We should be kind to animals because it makes better humans of us all,” Goodall once told ...

Casper native Dean Conger spent 30 years at National Geographic traveling the globe taking photos of presidents, astronauts ...

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This April, The Walt Disney Company will celebrate Earth Month with a global, enterprise-wide initiative led by National Geographic, inviting audiences to "Step Into Wonder." Anchored by the ...

In order to understand the massive changes afoot in the warming polar regions, oceanographer Allison Fong is hunting for the tiniest clues. Scientist Allison Fong removes an ice block from a floe in ...

Few figures in history have done more to change our understanding of the natural world. We celebrate Jane Goodall’s remarkable life with rare images from the National Geographic archives. Ethologist, ...

Our first in-house map was produced during World War I. By the Second World War, the White House was asking for them by name. National Geographic Society maps supply a backdrop for a meeting between ...

Roy Thomson Hall has announced that, due to overwhelming demand, a second performance of the special National Geographic Live ...

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