When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a ...

The report explains how the Middle East and North Africa is turning rapidly to desalination, driven by severe water scarcity, ...

Just north of the great Serengeti wildebeest migration, a smaller migration across the Mara ecosystem is collapsing. New maps ...

It’s a cool morning in the montane rainforest of western Rwanda’s Nyungwe National Park. Sunbeams stream down from the canopy, glowing in the mist. Birdsong pierces the still air. Jacques Habimana, a ...

South African photographer Shem Compion has spent more than 20 years documenting the extreme geography and diverse inhabitants of the Great Rift Valley.

Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political ...

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

Every few decades, finance finds a new pulse. In the 1980s, it was deregulation. In the 2000s, it was digitization. Today, its inclusion, and Africa is ...

As modern warfare shifts toward high-intensity conflict and contested supply lines, the ability to build and sustain combat power at scale is no ...

When a child opens a world atlas, they deserve the truth—not illusion. For centuries, however, geography lessons have been built on distorted foundations. The Mercator projection, introduced in 1569 ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...