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This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. National Geographic has always been at the forefront of lunar mapping. As the Apollo program closed in on its goal ...

This story appears in the April 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. Five minutes past ... the North Atlantic Current, all the way north, you'd end up in the West Spitsbergen Current ...

8 min read This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The maps here ... 80 degrees Fahrenheit instead of the current 58. The entire Atlantic seaboard would ...

This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. By the time Hurricane ... About a third of its current rise comes from thermal expansion—from the fact that ...

This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a gentle slope ... we are merely the latest. Nick had spent more than two weeks commanding this operation ...

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the past three ... To help keep you current on developments, we’re expanding our environmental coverage across ...

This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. We sink into Stargate ... They worked with urgency. At the current rate of sea-level rise (possibly several feet ...

This story appears in the January 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Every summer ... and scanning their irises to find out if the latest face-recognition software can tell them apart.

This story appears in the October 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. An ancient wind ... a reminder that this current chapter is thin and fragile. Mattingly's investigations bring him ...

This story appears in the June 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. In an earthen pit in central China, under what used to be their village’s persimmon orchard, three middle-aged women ...