WHO HASN’T PAUSED to appreciate a beautiful sunset? Or listen to the wind rustling through the trees? By the sea, there are mesmerizing tides and a salt-air scent; in the sky, da ...

SOME LIKE IT BOLD; some like it subtle. Some show off and others blend in. Some of our favorite animals are known for their patterns. What’s a tiger, or a zebra, without its stri ...

The National Geographic Society, committed to illuminating and protecting the wonder of our world, has been a funder since 2012 of the Photo Ark project founded by National Geograp ...

LACKING SHARP EYESIGHT, spiders use their legs to feel vibrations in their webs. A web’s silken strands have different lengths and tensions and, as a result, different frequencie ...

If you can hear the raspy ch-ch-ch produced by a rattlesnake’s tail, then you’ve already wandered too close. Or is that just what the snake wants you to think? By analyzing sou ...

THE REGENT HONEYEATER (Anthochaera phrygia) is a critically endangered songbird in southeastern Australia. Only a few hundred are left, and some young males aren’t around older o ...

FROM LOCATIONS on the ocean floor, seismographs relay data to scientists on land who monitor earthquakes. Besides picking up seismic activity, the instruments often capture the son ...

Latin pop in Peru, a call to prayer in Iran, the nightly news in Norway’s Arctic. All these sounds emanate from Radio Garden, a website that links to thousands of radio stations ...

A VOLCANO’S COLORS can be felt as much as seen. At the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland, about 19 miles from the capital, Reykjavík, the hottest lava radiates whitish yellow bu ...

SOLANGE DUHAMEL turned her back to the wind as it whipped nearly sideways across the rocky Icelandic landscape this past April. She shielded her face from pellets of hail, waiting ...