Almost a year into Israel’s campaign to eradicate Hamas in Gaza, life there continues to be dire. Some 42,000 have been ...

In host Marco Werman's latest conversation with National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek, Salopek arrives at the shores of ...

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, one of the leading museums of the world, just acquired a botanic book about Surinam for its collection. The author, Maria Sibylla Merian, was a 52-year-old divorcee who ...

Spellcheck and auto-correct can be helpful when you’re drafting an email or a text message. But if that red, squiggly line appears under your own name, it’s a different story. The World’s Bianca ...

Lebanon’s facing a massive crisis right now. More than 2,000 people have been killed in the past two weeks amid Israel and Hezbollah’s war. One million people have also been internally displaced in ...

Much of the rhetoric in the US presidential race has zeroed in on immigration. Republican candidate Donald Trump blames the Biden administration for challenges at the US-Mexico border. The Democratic ...

Former President Donald Trump has promised mass deportations if he makes it back to the Oval Office. Vice President Kamala Harris says if she wins in November, she’ll back a revamped version of the ...

The Chagos Islands were once part of the British Empire, and islanders were forced out to make way for a military base that is run by the United States. Now, the UK is returning the islands to ...

Japan shut down all 54 of its nuclear reactors after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. Only a dozen reactors have been restarted since then, and the national government wants to more than double that ...

Parts of Antarctica are turning green at an alarming rate, according to new research. Scientists used satellite imagery and data to analyze vegetation levels on the Antarctic Peninsula, a long ...

Israel continued to batter the dense population center of Beirut, Lebanon as well as Gaza and the West Bank. Flights to Iran, Lebanon and Iraq have been canceled across the region. Though some ...

In the Indian tech hub of Bengaluru, water has become a precious commodity. One initiative leverages an age-old, well-digging ...