Featured Articles:
- When Art Sounds a Climate Warning – In bubbles captured by ice on Alaska lakes and ponds, a photographer found inspiration – and sobering evidence – of climate change.
- Finding our Way to the Future – A Cosmos author’s plea: Let’s take what scientists tell us to heart.
- Microbial Art – Agar helps scientists grow microbes in labs. It’s also a canvas for unconventional art.
- Sacred Heights – Visiting the mountain monasteries of Meteora, Greece, is worth the steep climb.
- Bike Between Parks on Kokopelli’s Trail – A backcountry path runs 142 miles through “big, wild country” in the western U.S.
- The End of Trash – “To get along this Earth,” National Geographic’s senior environment editor writes, “we must do just one thing: Stop wasting so much of it.” That’s the goal of advocates of a circular economy – one that would extract value from most of the trash we now discard.
- The Secrets of Bees – Observing a wild nest of honeybees reveals tricks to their survival.
- Chibok Schoolgirls – These Nigerian kid-napping survivors are reclaiming their future.
- Culture, or Abuse? – Questions surround the treatment of Japanese macaques.
- Trailblazers – The accomplishments of groundbreaking women light up National Geographic’s history.