Subscribe Now! National Geographic Magazine $15
Visit our Online Shops

Sign up for free

Newsletters

Once a month
get new photos
and expert tips.

Influenza Fears

Photo: Masked baseball player
Surgical masks provide a measure of protection against a killer flu for American baseball players in 1918. That year—the final year of World War I—the Spanish flu took 50 million lives worldwide, at least three times as many as during the war.
Photograph by Underwood and Underwood/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Health and Human Body Topics

SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION

Photo: 2009 Winner

Photo Contest

Find out who takes home the Grand Prize!

Photo: Man carrying a kayak

Adventure Videos

Check out adventure videos from our West Coast Adventure Editor Steve Casimiro and go "Behind the Lens."

The Green Guide

Photo: Green flower

Get tips for helping the environment.

Support Conservation

Photo: Two penguins

Help conserve the world's natural resources.