Susan Goldberg

As we go behind the scenes of the herculean effort to restore Notre Dame Cathedral, we also confront thorny questions about cultural heritage sites.

In print, online, and in a broadcast series hosted by actor Will Smith, scientists and explorers journey to extreme places and explain curious phenomena.

As he traces our ancestors’ pathways out of Africa to the tip of South America, Paul Salopek takes an unhurried view of a frenetic world.

As we battle climate change, there are reasons for optimism: emissions-reduction strides in autos today, and aircraft in the near future.

Shade could be a low-tech solution to our heat problem, but inequalities make it a fraught commodity.

For all the threats to the ocean—warming, overfishing, pollution—a veteran undersea photographer sees ways to help and reasons for hope.

The world’s great metropolises will need to adapt to survive a huge growth.

With Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat—and 67 million Instagram followers of @NatGeo—we’re maintaining our founders’ commitment to storytelling.

National Geographic ‘will continue to report—factually and fairly—on how climate change is altering the Earth.’

National Geographic is launching a multiyear ‘Planet or Plastic?’ campaign to encourage consumers to reduce single-use plastics.

Selfie-seeking visitors like close encounters with exotic animals. Our investigation uncovered rampant abuse behind the scenes.

After successive refugee waves, more people have been forcibly displaced than at any other time since World War II—68.5 million by the UN’s latest count.

National Geographic’s top editors explain how to keep photography honest in the era of Photoshop—and why they’ll never move the pyramids again.

The great majority of adults with the little-understood condition are unemployed or underemployed, and lack a romantic partner or spouse.

When they’re widowed, many women are deprived of property, land, or children—but many are also fighting back.

For centuries, white males of European descent cornered the market on the title 'genius.' Today, we see flashes of it everywhere.

This National Geographic photographer covered assassinations and conflict abroad. Now, he found himself in the middle of chaos at the U.S. Capitol.

A native of the Great Lakes State, National Geographic’s editor contends that protection of the freshwater source is key to the planet’s survival.

‘Stolen Lives’ is National Geographic’s investigation of a human rights tragedy: the sexual enslavement of children for profit in India and Bangladesh.

We’re increasingly relying on automation and artificial intelligence in everyday life. But we still don’t quite trust robots and fear they will take our jobs.