The Complete National Geographic Booklet and DVD
Browse more than 121 years of National Geographic magazine—every article, photograph, and map they’ve published exactly as they appeared in print. Now updated to include 2009 issues, their definitive collection of every issue of National Geographic magazine is digitally reproduced in high resolution. Use the visual interface to explore a topic, find photographs, browse the globe, or wander on your own expedition.
- Rediscover every printed page—every article and advertisement, and thousands of photographs—from 1888 through 2009
- Reference hundreds of the magazine's classic maps digitized as part of the magazine's archive for the first time
- Use Geobrowse—a visual geographic search tool—to find articles, photographs, and maps about the location you choose
- Browse special "read lists" from National Geographic or personalize your archive by creating and saving your own lists of favorite articles
- Test your knowledge of subjects including exploration, the environment, geography, history, cultures, and more with a trivia game that links to related articles
National Geographic Daily News
March 20th
A restored warship, a rock-art capital, and a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed campus are among 13 new U.S. historic sites of distinction.
March 19th
Deep in the Mongolian desert, researchers say they've uncovered a forgotten 60-mile stretch of the Great Wall system.
March 19th
Pilgrims visiting a holy cave along the Amarnath Yatra route in Kashmir in the Himalaya are melting and polluting the glaciers.
March 19th
Glittering or flashing seas have long been linked to marine microbes—and now scientists think they know how the sea beasts create light.
March 19th
Hundreds of thousands of visitors to the Amarnath Yatra in Kashmir are polluting, and melting, an important glacier, scientists say.
March 16th
Planets meet over a monastery, a cosmic unicorn sparkles, the Milky Way flows over Borneo, and more in the week's best space pictures.
March 16th
Was St. Patrick Irish? What's an authentic shamrock? Sort history from myth this St. Patrick's Day and celebrate true Irish heritage.
March 16th
Japanese honeybees swarm to cook enemy hornets, but how do they survive the heat themselves? A new brain study may have the answer.
March 15th
Colossal and giant squid eyes—the world's biggest—seem to have a "superpower" Captain Ahab might have killed for: sperm whale vision.
March 15th
An "extraordinary" new study—based on treacherous hands-on measurements—suggests crocs are "force-generating machines" rivaling T. rex.
March 15th
Once simply a time to settle accounts, March 15—the Ides of March—is linked to prophecies of misfortune, thanks to Caesar and Shakespeare.
March 14th
Found in a Chinese cave, the fossils might represent a heavy-browed new human species—or "nothing extraordinary," as one critic put it.
March 14th
A new study argues that replacing all the world's coal power plants with natural gas would do little to slow global warming this century.
March 14th
For two arid villages in Benin, starvation seemed a greater problem than the lack of electricity. Solar drip irrigation tackled both issues at once.
March 13th
The mini plant-eaters—including one with a neck frill and a hatchet-shaped jaw—roamed then balmy Alberta, Canada, a new study says.
March 13th
Thursday evening, look to the west as Jupiter and Venus make their closest approach of the current conjunction—no binoculars needed.
March 12th
A long-sought Leonardo da Vinci mural may be hidden behind a brick wall—and another masterpiece—preliminary tests suggest.
March 12th
Microraptors—four-winged, feathered dinosaurs that lived 125 million years ago—sported Earth's oldest known iridescence, a new study says.
March 12th
See a Martian dust devil, a solar storm in 3-D, and a "surreal" desert in some of our favorite space pictures of last week.
March 12th
An asteroid that slammed into the moon billions of years ago may explain strange patches of magnetic rock, new models suggest.