National Geographic was founded in 1888 by a group of visionaries who embodied an era of exploration, discovery, invention, and change. With offices around the world and headquarters in Washington ...

Peter Gwin is an editor at large for National Geographic and cohost of the award-winning podcast Overheard. He began as a staff writer for the magazine in 2003, and has contributed stories from an ...

Travelers will soon be able to explore new destinations with exciting additions to National Geographic Expeditions for 2025 and 2026. If you’re looking to explore the globe in a whole new way ...

Roughly 740,000 acres of the Mojave Desert comprise California's newest national monument in Riverside and Imperial counties. Chuckwalla National Monument was established in mid-January by ...

Tucked away in the sun-scorched expanse of Rajasthan’s Thar Desert, Desert National Park is an adventure seeker’s paradise. This stunning natural wonder sprawls over 3,162 sq. km in the ...

Laphonza Butler, along with Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-Palm Desert), introduced legislation in April to designate the Chuckwalla National Monument. Then in September, Padilla and Butler introduced ...

The area that is now Joshua Tree National Park wasn’t always a desert. During the Great Ice Age, also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, there were rivers and lakes as well as Columbian mammoths ...

February 3, 2025 • The Panama Canal has sat at the center of global trade for more than a century, connecting two oceans. The things Americans use every day pass through here, from gas to food ...

Tom Egan, front, and Frazier Haney on top of a hill at Chuckwalla Bench with the Chuckwalla Mountains in the background in February 2018. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) ...

But until recently, we haven’t had any therapeutics to target the root cause of geographic atrophy ... But large studies by the National Eye Institute and other great researchers around the ...