go on rides and hang with their favorite characters at the most magical place on Earth. The Color Purple actress and her 4-year-old daughter share a special moment with Chef Goofy at the Disney ...
Climate change presents the gravest threat to life on Earth in all of human history. The planet is warming to a degree beyond what many species can handle, altering or eliminating habitat, reducing ...
This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. When you conjure up “extinction” in your mind’s eye, you probably see an animal—a dodo, perhaps, or a ...
You can see the tragic effects of vaccine skepticism in this chart, by my colleague Ashley Wu, which compares the death rates in red and blue counties: ...
Its two sources of fuel, hydrogen and lithium, are widely available in many parts of the Earth. What’s the difference between nuclear fission and nuclear fusion? Both are nuclear processes, in that ...
Since their relatively recent appearance on the commercial scene, rare-earth magnets have made quite a splash in the public imagination. The amount of magnetic energy packed into these tiny ...
We all rely on the ocean, whether we know it or not. Earth's vast expanses of water are key to the success of all life on Earth. We eat fish from the ocean, we breathe the oxygen it gives off, we feel ...
The 1.7C of warming reported in the new research would put Earth beyond the preferred international ... work warn the world could be on track to 2C of warming by the end of this decade.
Generating electricity and heat by burning fossil fuels – coal, oil, or gas – causes a large chunk of the greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide, that blanket the Earth and ...
Despite the fact that iron is the fourth most abundant element in the earth's crust, it is often limiting for plants due to the fact that it tends to form insoluble complexes in aerobic soils of ...