Historically, it’s rare for a storm to exceed 200mph—but early research suggests it might not be so uncommon in the near ...

Climate change could wipe out monarchs' winter habitats by 2090, but an ‘assisted migration’ strategy aims to build new ...

Typically, as the days get colder and shorter during autumn, leaves are exposed to less sunlight. This slows down the ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... and our planet’s most pressing problems (including climate change). I allow them to choose between two points ...

At least five storms over the past decade would fit a new classification beyond Category 5—and engineers are working to ...

This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Six years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a report predicting a maximum of ...

Air pollutants cause less-direct health effects when they contribute to climate change. Heat waves ... The U.S. Fourth National Climate Assessment released in 2018 noted, for example, that ...

The Flood Insurance Rate Maps used by FEMA are based on antiquated data and obsolete models. As a result, the U.S. government ...

We're armed with crampons, ice axes, rope, GPS receivers, and bear spray to ward off grizzlies, and we're trudging toward Sperry Glacier in Glacier National ... Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Climate models aren’t yet sophisticated enough to capture that kind of rapid landscape change. But at National Geographic’s request, Katey Walter Anthony and Charles Koven, a modeler at the ...

Along Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef, curious visitors can witness an innovative new coral restoration project and help ...

Today’s teaching methods prioritize creative problem-solving over traditional formulas and equations, but these changes may ...