Recent headlines have drawn attention to naming conventions and mapping technology. But maps have always been political, ...

Icon depicting the Emperor Constantine and the fathers of the Council of Nicaea of 325 with the Greek text of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed of 381 in its liturgical form.

The Swiss canton of Glarus has voted this way since medieval times—with the goal to find a solution that's “a little bit OK ...

The world’s oldest map of the night sky was amazingly accurate Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient ...

This Harley-Davidson took the world’s first motorcycle ride powered by solar fuel. The bike motored along the shores of Switzerland’s Lake Zurich thanks to a new type of sustainable energy.

On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor. Maps, both historic and newly created by National Geographic, yield new insights into the full scope of Japan's battle plans for the day ...

Have we broken the natural contract between humans and rivers? The nature writer debates our relationship with the world’s waterways that inspired his latest book, Is A River Alive?

These are the best book towns around the world In these small towns from Scotland to New Zealand, books shape identity, tourism, and community. Wigtown, known as "Scotland's Book Town," has a 10 ...

The findings suggest primitive eukaryotes were widespread between about 1.6 billion and 800 million years ago, comprising what the scientists have called a “lost world” of early complex life.

This idea—a belief that all lives are inter-connected—is particularly relevant in the book, so I decided to invent a Nat Geo cover story specifically about Neruda and use those lines in the novel.

The National Park Service has closed Washington D.C.'s historic Dupont Circle Park ahead of the final weekend of WorldPride.