An analysis of nearly 28 million Medicare beneficiaries indicates that long-term exposure to air pollution is a risk factor ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is moving to scale back limits on toxic emissions from coal-burning power plants, clearing the way for them to emit more hazardous pollutants, such as mercury.

National Geographic photographer Joshua Cogan returns to eastern Nevada to document the art, culture, and creative traditions shaped by the region’s high-desert landscape. At Spanish Ranch in ...

It turns out there are still some near-secret Cycladic isles. From Santorini, solitude-seekers leave the crowds behind on a ferry bound for a little-known alternative: Folegandros, where there’s no ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Fifty years after the federal government saved the Congaree swamp from industrial scale logging, the 27,000 acre nature preserve faces a rash of other threats that have the attention ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifty years after the federal government saved the Congaree swamp from industrial scale logging, the 27,000 acre nature preserve ...

A display at Congaree National Park shows the history of how the preserve was saved. Sammy Fretwell/The State Fifty years after the federal government saved the Congaree swamp from industrial scale ...

Seaweed bathing in Ireland, a trek through Africa’s first designated wilderness quiet park—we asked National Geographic staff and contributors for their favorite places to escape the stress and noise ...

National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions is celebrating a major milestone this year, marking 60 years since expedition travel, as we now know it, first began. On January 23, 1966, Swedish explorer ...

Air pollution and health outcomes vary by geography, but patterns in the city can be surprising. By Akiva Blander In New York City, air pollution is unevenly distributed among the city’s neighborhoods ...

Jenni Shearston has received funding from the National Institutes of Health. I grew up in rural Colorado, deep in the mountains, and I can still remember the first time I visited Denver in the early ...

LOS ANGELES -- Will Smith has been a sensation in the entertainment world for decades, from a musician to a television and film actor, from an online creator to a National Geographic Explorer with ...