Reflecting on a year of storytelling with a purpose

Plastic pollution, climate change, wildlife trafficking: On urgent issues like these, ‘people turn to National Geographic,’ says Chairman Gary Knell.

This story appears in the December 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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