Scientist at Work Blog: A Year Later, Ready to Dive Again

Despite the complications of last year's expedition, archaeologists return to Belize in hopes of a more successful dive for ancient Maya offerings.

National Geographic announces its Emerging Explorers for 2012

( National Geographic Society ) A cyborg anthropologist, a pilot, a digital storyteller and zoologist, a crisis mapper and a guerrilla geographer are among the 15 visionary, young trailblazers from around the world who have been named to the 2012 class of National Geographic Emerging Explorers.

'Broken Earth Day': Connecting Climate Change to Wild Weather

In New Mexico, firefighters stand in the remains of the Santa Fe Forest, which was burned last summer during the state’s worst wildfire in history. In Pakistan, a group of women hold dots in front of the makeshift shelter that became their home after the devastating floods in 2010 that displaced over 20 million people. In Lebanon, over 1,000 students made their dots the wheels of a giant bicycle ...

In '72, EPA battled pollution; now it's politics

A polluted drainage ditch that once flowed with industrial waste from Lake Charles, La., petrochemical plants teems with overgrown, wild plants today.

Ghosts, fine food and frivolity

"Look, folks - if you quickly glance behind you, you'll see the white glow of Lady Winfred's ghost floating toward."