See phenomenal photos of the world’s wonders from the February 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.

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Google Earth photo captured a hill formation in Sudan that bears a striking resemblance to human lips. Not much is known ...

The largest volcanoes in Earth’s history owe their formation to powerful geological phenomena called mantle plumes—upwellings of abnormally hot rock within the Earth’s mantle that rise toward the ...

Hidden in every tenth of a degree of extra warmth are hair-trigger switches built into Earth systems that are critical for ...

For decades, students around the world have memorized the same geography lesson: seven continents, split cleanly by oceans ...