We depend on plastic. Now we’re drowning in it.
Biruté Galdikas's iconic story helped change the fate of orangutans
How a physician’s DIY device got Americans to the top of Everest
What Apollo 11 astronauts said when they got to the moon
The deadly race to decipher Maya hieroglyphs
What you don’t know about the Vikings
What the first American tourist in ‘Shangri-La’ took home
A rare glimpse of rural Japan more than 100 years ago
A 50-day voyage to the kingdom of ice
Traveling the Blues Highway—‘the root of all American music’
Inside a steel sphere deep underwater, these explorers made history
These unearthly whale songs helped save humpbacks from extinction
These sunken ceramics ushered in a new era for archaeology
How this 100-year-old sun compass unlocked polar exploration
A harrowing tale of the first Americans to summit Everest
The man who helped change the fate of Africa's elephants
How U.S. soldiers put together Christmas on the WWI battlefield
What it was like to visit Petra more than 100 years ago
Inside West Berlin in 1961—just after the wall went up
What it really took to become an astronaut during the Space Race
The first underwater photos reveal the ocean floor in full color
The heroes who saved the world's last tigers
‘Violent but sweet’—inside the secret world of American rodeo
What it was like to see King Tut's tomb just after it was opened
Inside Richard Leakey's discovery of an ancient human ancestor skull
Read Jane Goodall's iconic 1963 article from the magazine
How the world first learned about longevity Blue Zones
The first photographs to capture wildlife at night
A journey across Afghanistan in the 1960s
Robert Redford rides the Outlaw Trail