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National Geographic photographer Nick Nichols is working on a new project in Africa, photographing Serengeti lions. But this assignment is something new, even for a magazine known for pushing the boundaries of photography. Backed up by a team of National Geographic experts, Nichols is deploying a remotely operated miniature helicopter to dangle a camera above a pride of predator, and a toy car to drive a camera within a paw swat of the big cats. The results he hopes for: pictures of Africa’s wild lions such as no one has ever seen.
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Every night this week, a kind of slow-motion, yet fevered search unfolds, the culmination of a years-long effort to determine if Leonardo da Vinci’s “Battle of Anghiari,” last seen some 450 years ago, is hidden behind a fresco in Palazzo Vecchio, the City Hall of Florence, Italy.
Posted by The United Nations chose today as a “symbolic date” for the the population milestone of 7,000,000,000 people. Today is also Halloween, so the UN chose aptly: Population has been the monster knocking at our door for a long time. National Geographic Senior Environment Editor Robert Kunzig comments that the biggest population problem is not growth, it’s the way we live.
Send Your Extreme Weather Questions & Stories
Posted by John Kondis on October 28, 2011 
“National Geographic” magazine has been gathering data and talking to scientists about extreme and changing weather. We’d like to hear from you as well. What have you experienced where you live? What would you like to ask the experts? Join the conversation and be part of the creation of this upcoming article.
Posted by Apple co-founder and computer-age visionary Steve Jobs died this week after a long bout with cancer. It’s no overstatement to say that the 56-year-old Californian transformed how we live, from the way we communicate to the way we share and consume media. Jobs changed the world from Silicon Valley, whose fortunes and rise mirrored his…
Behind the Lens: Photograph or Painting?
Posted by Andrew Howley of NG Staff on May 20, 2011 
While on assignment in Namibia for National Geographic magazine, Frans Lanting captured this surreal landscape image in a location called Dead Vlei. Due to the nature of the lighting in the frame, the photograph appears almost like a painting. We asked Lanting to take a few moments to answer readers’ questions.
Who’s Skipping School?
Posted by Anne Marie Houppert on May 16, 2011 The new Nat Geo movie, The First Grader, tells the story of a Kenyan man in his 80s who applies for a coveted spot in school along with first graders. Revisit some recent National Geographic articles illustrating the challenges which defeat many would-be students, and how education can change a life, and possibly a culture.
Skin Diver Tells His Full Story, 40 Years Later
Posted by Andrew Howley of NG Staff on April 18, 2011 By Clare Fieseler, NGS Young Explorer Grantee His back muscles are taut. Poised, and with perfect buoyancy, Villamar Godfrey is pictured yanking a 30-pound jewfish from a spectacular colony of elkhorn coral. Godfrey, now 77, stares at a grainy scanned image of page 127 from National Geographic’s January 1972 issue. “His name was Mike Long.…
On the evening of June 15, 1896, the northeast coast of Hondo, the main island of Japan, was struck by a great earthquake wave (tsunami), which was more destructive of life and property than any earthquake convulsion of this century in that empire. Thus began an article in the September 1896 issue of National Geographic…
Can we avoid another disaster? Science journalists reporting on the Gulf talk about the fate of aquatic species after the Deepwater Horizon spill. By Tasha Eichenseher National Public Radio’s (NPR) <a href=”Talk of the Nation show was recorded live yesterday at National Geographic, where journalists Joel Bourne and Richard Harris shared stories from the Gulf…
Wildlife Kingpin Jailed
Posted by Bryan Christy on September 7, 2010 On Monday, September 6, the world’s most notorious wildlife dealer, Anson Wong of Malaysia, was sentenced to prison after a lock on his suitcase containing legally protected snakes broke on an airport conveyor belt. From the island of Penang, Wong operates one of the world’s largest legal reptile supply companies, which he has used in…
Deciphering Peru’s Nasca Lines
Posted by Ford Cochran on February 21, 2010 The mysterious lines stretch for miles across southern Peru, spanning the plains adjacent to the bone-dry Atacama Desert, Earth’s driest. Seen from above, they depict animals and people, spirals, trapezoids, and other geometric forms—or simply run straight, paths to nowhere. Since they were first described by archaeologists in the 1930s and ’40s, people have speculated…
Photo Contest Winners Take World by Storm
Posted by Ford Cochran on December 8, 2009 What do a volcano straddling the border of Chile and Bolivia, a 97-year-old woman dressed in her Sunday best at a bus stop in Chamblee, Georgia, and a peppermint shrimp in a sponge at the bottom of Bonaire’s Margate Bay all have in common? Each is the subject of a winning photograph (categories People, Places,…
Chimps in Mourning
Posted by Ford Cochran on October 29, 2009 By now, you’ve likely seen Monica Szczupider’s photograph of grieving chimpanzees at Cameroon’s Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center. The image—which Monica submitted to Your Shot, and which appeared in the November issue of National Geographic magazine—is resonating with people everywhere. Over the last few days, it’s turned up in newspapers, on television, and on blogs worldwide.…
Rogue Rodent: ‘Ready for My Close-Up’
Posted by Ford Cochran on August 12, 2009 When Melissa Brandts positioned her camera for a timed self-portrait with her husband on the banks of Canada’s stunning Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park, she didn’t expect a squirrel to steal the scene. “This curious little ground squirrel appeared, became intrigued with the sound of the focusing camera and popped right into our shot,”…
