More than a thousand years after a ship vanished off the coast of modern-day Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a wreck that might reshape our ideas of the medieval world.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently released highlights from its 2025 survey of the USS Monitor, the iconic prototype ironclad warship that sank during the Civil War.

Rising seas are reshaping the world’s lowest-lying islands, but responsible travel can be part of the solution. so how can we visit without increasing their vulnerability?

A RENEWED deep-sea hunt for missing flight MH370 has failed to find any trace of the doomed jet 12 years after it vanished. Search teams spent nearly a month combing thousands of square miles of ...

National Geographic explorer Tara Roberts tells how diving to surface the stories of sunken slave shipwrecks has changed her life.

In 1986, Kihachiro Aratake was diving off the coast of Yonaguni when he spotted a giant structure 25 meters below the surface ...

In this exclusive video for Scubaverse.com, Jeff Goodman sits down with Calum Stronach. A highly experienced polar dive ...

Only accessible by ferry, seaplane, or private charter, this remote park offers world-class snorkeling, rare birdwatching, and secluded camping.

A coalition of scientific, preservation and historical groups on Tuesday sued the Trump administration, arguing that the removal of information about civil rights, climate change and other topics at ...

This story originally published in the September 1922 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. Of all the poetic titles applied by the Japanese in ...

Rooted in the Mississippi Delta, the blues sprang from spiritual music and field hollers, spinning a cultural thread that followed the Great Black Migration from South to North. Sheer joy of ...

Re “How National Park Service Is Taking a Crowbar to U.S. History” (news article, Jan. 28): I object strongly to directives instructing national parks to remove materials deemed by the Trump ...