Mount St. Helens: New Life in the Blast ZoneMay 01, 2010 – National Geographic stories take you on a journey that's always enlightening, often surprising, and unfailingly fascinating.
Best of the World: QuitoDecember 07, 2012 – Some people may be surprised to see Quito in Traveler’s epic year-end Best of the World feature. The Spanish colonial UNESCO World Heritage site often gets short shrift, with many travelers treating the city as a stopover en route to the Galapagos, but Quito deserves main-event status. Here’s why.
Photos: Rare Deep-Sea Anglerfish RecordedAugust 24, 2012 – Rare, red, bulbous deep-sea anglerfishs that can “walk” and change color are recorded thousands of feet below the surface.
Garajonay National Park, SpainApril 08, 2011 – Get facts, photos, and travel tips for Garajonay National Park in Spain from National Geographic.
Deepest Volcanic Sea Vents Found; "Like Another World"April 13, 2010 – "It was like wandering across another world," said a researcher of witnessing the hydrothermal "smokers," which may hold unknown creatures.
Pictures: Creeping Lava Consumes HomeJuly 29, 2010 – As lava from the Kilauea volcano crept closer to his Hawaiian home, resident Gary Sleik felt three years of anxiety go up in smoke.
Best Pictures: Nat Geo Photo Contest Winners, 2010December 18, 2010 – From a charging buffalo to an erupting volcano—see the winning pictures of the 2010 National Geographic Photo Contest.
News: Russia’s Kamchatka Opens UpJuly 14, 2008 – Claim a first ascent on an inactive volcano with new regular flights to the Pacific Ring of Fire. Text by Kirkpatrick Reardon It just got easier to explore it on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, the most volcanic region on Earth with 29 active volcanoes (several of them over 10,000 feet tall), rivers rushing with 30-inch rainbow…
In a scalding spring, one species of microbe is becoming twoFebruary 22, 2012 – In a cauldron of boiling, acidic water, kneeling at the foot of a Russian volcano, one species of microbe is on the cusp of becoming two. Sulfolobus islandicus is an archaeon – one of many single-celled microbes that thrive in extreme environments. Mutnovsky volcano is certainly one such place. Found at the far eastern end […]
View From the BottomOctober 20, 2010 – Sometimes you have to descend from the lofty peaks to really see a country.
BEST PHOTOS: Nat Geo Global Contest Winners, 2009December 14, 2009 – Peppermint shrimp, volcano-loving clouds, and bus shelters now have one thing in common: They've all been featured in winning pictures from National Geographic magazine's 2009 International Photography Contest.
Your Guatemala PhotosNovember 12, 2010 – See Guatemala photos submitted to National Geographic by users like you.
"Snowball Earth" Confirmed: Ice Covered EquatorMarch 06, 2010 – But volcanoes would've made Earth more mud ball than snowball, scientists say.
Lunar Eclipse Saturday to Appear Red?June 27, 2010 – A partial eclipse of the full moon tomorrow may get an added boost of red color from recent eruptions of the Iceland volcano, astronomers say.
A Volcanic Mud Bath in ColombiaMarch 08, 2010 – Alison Ince, manager of Collections in National Geographic Libraries and Information Services, headed down to explore the Caribbean coast of Colombia. Who would have thought that lying in a pool of thick gray mud would be one of the highlights of my trip to Colombia? But there I was, in the crater of a…
"Super Earth" May Really Be New Planet Type: Super-IoFebruary 06, 2010 – A planet touted as the most Earthlike outside our solar system might be molten on one side with raging volcanoes on the other, say scientists who think the rocky world CoRoT-7b is closer kin to Jupiter's moon Io.