Now fully supported by the National Geographic Society, the Photo Ark has reached hundreds of millions of people. Sartore says looking into the eyes of a creature lets us see their great beauty ...

Joseph Kabila's camp denies any ties to the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels who have seized more territory than ever since January.

To honor Koko's memory, National Geographic is republishing "Conversations ... sensitivities commonly held to be the prerogative of people. But Koko responds to more complicated motivations ...

(see a video on APR by the National Geographic Society ... plenty of trampoline time in the backyard at Blue Heaven Ranch. “People are here because they love the land,” says Toby Werk.

But it might be something different.” The nonprofit National Geographic Society, committed to illuminating and protecting the wonder of our world, funded Explorer Aaron Micallef's work.

Colorectal cancer should be on your radar: Today, one in five cases diagnosed occurs in people younger than 54, marking an 11 percent uptick in this age group over the past two decades.

National Geographic photographer Keith Ladzinski focused on the positive when it came to forest fires: the solutions people are working on.

The winners of the National Geographic Photography Competition have been revealed.

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This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... All these adaptations give indigenous people living at high altitudes an advantage over the woozy visitor gasping ...

Former Congolese President Joseph Kabila and his team on Friday, May 30, held inaugural discussions with AFC/M23 political leader Corneille Nangaa in Goma, the capital of eastern DR Congo’s North Kivu ...