Policies meant to lure importers to Hainan, a resort island off China’s coast, signal an opening up, Beijing says. One expert calls it a “bait and switch.” Visitors at an exhibition center promoting ...

Still, the fancy persists, implanted like a microchip, ever since Erich von Däniken’s 1968 best-seller, “Chariots of the Gods ...

As for the statues long assumed to have been abandoned as they were being transported to the coastline to be displayed in ...

For the best part of two centuries people fought to protect isolated island - where cows and deer grazed - against the tides ...

The Bighorn Sheep walks confidently through the rocky terrain, its curved horns a symbol of strength and resilience. Adapted ...

All right, so the frenzy of the holidays has passed, and in the first month of the year, we’re just catching our breath. But then, winter stretches out ahead of us. Fortunately, there’s a surprising ...

The largest island in the world, Greenland (that is not green at all but rather covered by white ice), has in recent months and even several years become ...

In early 2026, President Donald Trump pushed for a U.S. takeover of Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark.

Seaweed bathing in Ireland, a trek through Africa’s first designated wilderness quiet park—we asked National Geographic staff ...

Once a base for pirates is now a remote island home to around 28 residents, with a small village, pub, shop, lighthouse and ...

Taxpayers will fork out about $7 million to purchase 1900 hectares of farmland as part of a national park expansion in SA’s ...