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The latest from cheetah country comes to you in 3 parts: Part I: Ghanzi District, Botswana. Late October, 2011 – Cheetah Conservation Botswana It is Sunday at last, time to rest. A lazy feeling takes hold of cheetah camp, even Murphy is pretty low key and Cat…
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Dr. Çağan Şekercioğlu is a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. A professor of conservation biology, ecology and ornithology at the University of Utah Department of Biology, he also directs the Turkish environmental organization KuzeyDoğa. A gray wolf (Canis lupus) photographed by one of KuzeyDoğa‘s camera traps in Kars Turkey (Türkiye) is the only country covered almost entirely by three…
A New Year’s Resolution for the Ocean
Posted by Miguel Jorge of National Geographic's Ocean Initiative in Ocean Views on December 23, 2011 
The new year is a time for celebration and looking towards the future with hope and anticipation. We often hear about the dire state of the ocean – serious overfishing, pollution, acidification – it would seem there is not much to be hopeful about. But that is not the whole story.
National Geographic Bees Make D.C. a Little Sweeter
Posted by Andrew Howley of NG Staff on August 18, 2011 
The National Geographic Society picked up several hundred new employees this past week. They will work 24 hours a day, rain or shine, and will live on our rooftop. In turn, they will produce one of the most amazing substances known in the universe–it is honey; they are bees.
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Maya hieroglyphic stairway discovered at El Palmar in Campeche, Mexico. There are only twenty of these reported in over five thousand documented sites in the region. A spectacular find that may shed light into a new type of sacred space among the ancient Maya.
Posted by “Next to oxygen, water is indisputably the most precious resource we have, and the shortage of freshwater is the biggest long-term problem facing the planet Earth. Even energy is a distant second–with energy, we have alternatives. With water there are none.” This dire warning from Gil Grosvenor, chairman of the National Geographic Society, served as…
Geographic Society’s Center for Sustainable Destinations and National Geographic Traveler magazine have teamed up again this year to rate the world’s most popular destinations on environmental and ecological quality, social and cultural integrity and outlook for the future, among several other categories. The big winner this year is Norway’s fjord region, which topped the chart…
Posted by As I perused the bountiful wares of Rexville Grocery in rural Washington State last week, I was surprised to see a sign in their front window advertising an electric-vehicle charging station. The small market and community center (which, at this time of year, offers delectable pies with berries plucked right from the surrounding farmlands) sits…
The already blossoming green jobs sector may get an added growth spurt with the U.S. Department of Energy‘s recent announcement that the FutureGen project is back on track. A novel coal-fired, near-zero-emissions power plant in Mattoon, Illinois, FutureGen was first proposed by the Bush Administration in 2003 as a way to control carbon dioxide emissions,…
“Living Building” Opens Today in St. Louis
Posted by Tasha Eichenseher of National Geographic on May 29, 2009 Here’s a breath of fresh air—one of North America’s first “living buildings” opened today in at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. The new Living Learning Center, set in the woods at an environmental-research facility on campus, is also in the running to become the first building to meet the Living Building Challenge. The initiative,…
Energy Meters With Refund Checks
Posted by Tasha Eichenseher of National Geographic on April 29, 2009 Your taxes are in. And if you’re expecting a refund, using it to buy an energy meter could be the best investment you make this year. Just like financial planning, energy conservation is made a whole lot easier when you have a baseline to work from and know what you’re spending. At a “Town Hall”…
FFI photo by Zhao Chao “With only about 100 cao vit gibbons remaining in the world, the recent birth of this baby has extra significance,” Fauna & Flora International said today. “This species is only found in one location in the world, on the international border between Vietnam and China,” the UK-based conservation charity said…
Camera trap photo by C Santiago Espinosa/WCS This is one of 75 pictures of jaguars taken by camera traps in the first large-scale census of the elusive big cat in the Amazon region of Ecuador. The ongoing census, which began in 2007, is working to establish baseline population numbers as oil exploration and subsequent development…
NGS/David Boyer Nearly half of all dog owners share food with their dogs, and more than half allow the dog to sleep in the bed and lick them on the face, according to surveys cited by a Kansas State University veterinarian today. So what are the health risks associated with such intimate bonding between humans…
The Splendid White-eye (Zosterops splendidus) is found only on the tiny island of Ranongga and is one of seven species endemic to islands of the New Georgia Group, Solomon Islands. C. Filardi/CBC-AMNH Birds within the family Zosteropidae — named white-eyes for the feathers that frame their eyes — evolve at a faster rate than any…
Unchecked emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere would lead to a tenfold expansion of low-oxygen areas in the global ocean that will remain for thousands of years to come, adversely affecting fisheries and ocean ecosystems far into the future. Mississippi Dead Zone image courtesy NASA This prediction is made by Danish scientists in a paper “Long-term ocean oxygen…
NGS/Michael Nichols Elephants that survived the trauma of the poaching of their relatives may struggle for decades to build new social relationships, new research suggests. Some may still be living alone twenty years after losing their families. “An African elephant never forgets – especially when it comes to the loss of its kin,” according to researchers at the…
Paul Zahl/NGS Add frogs to the list of animals we may be eating out of existence. At least 200 million and maybe more than a billion frogs are being consumed by humans each year, researchers said this week. “Frogs legs are on the menu at school cafeterias in Europe, market stalls and dinner tables across…
Satellite image courtesy of GeoEye This is what the National Mall in Washington, D.C., looked like some 40 minutes before Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States two days ago. GeoEye-1, the world’s highest resolution commercial Earth-imaging satellite, collected the image over the United States Capitol from 423 miles…
NASA Climate scientists have long believed that while most of the rest of the globe has been getting steadily warmer, a large part of Antarctica — the East Antarctic Ice Sheet — has been getting colder. But new research, depicted in this illustration released by NASA today, shows that for the last 50 years, much…
Nile Delta vegetable farmer photo by Dean Conger/NGS This post is part of a special National Geographic news series on global water issues. The coastal Mediterranean fishery off the Nile Delta has expanded dramatically since the 1980s, thanks to run-off of fertilizers and sewage discharges in the region, according to a researcher at the University…
National Zoo giant pandas photo by Michael Nichols/NGS The Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C., appealed this week to local landowners and farmers to provide bamboo to feed to the zoo’s pandas and other animals. “The zoo will accept any species of bamboo, but it is most interested in species of the Phyllostachys genus, which can…
Photo by James L. Stanfield/NGS For Enric Sala, saving the oceans is personal. By personal he doesn’t mean only himself. He means me, and you, and every one of our six billion fellow humans. “If we all did something it would be huge,” he said at a lunchtime forum at National Geographic headquarters in…
Photo of an agave field in Mexico by Dr. Sarah Bowen, NCSU Tequila’s surge in popularity over the past 15 years has been a boon for industry, “but is triggering a significant hangover of social and environmental problems” in the region of Mexico where the liquor is produced, North Carolina State University said in a…
Two Tasmanian Tigers in the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, Washington D.C., about 1906, by E.J. Keller, from the Smithsonian Institution. All the genes that the Tasmanian Tiger, an extinct carnivorous marsupial, inherited only from its mother will be revealed by an international team of scientists in a research paper to be published today in the online…
