National Geographic UK - 09.2019

THE NEW COLD WAR AS THE ICE MELTS, OLD RIVALS SCRAMBLE FOR POSITION THE CARBON THREAT THAWING TUNDRA WILL SPEED UP GLOBAL WARMIN ...

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PROOF EMBARK EXPLORE CONTENTS FURTHER BASIC INSTINCTS Shy by Nature but Showy in Conquest Western tragopan males flaunt feather ...

FEATURES Uncovering an Arctic Mystery The Franklin Expedi- tion set out to chart the Northwest Passage. Then it vanished. BY HEA ...

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AS SOIL A COUPLE OF FEET DEEP GOES FROM FROZEN TO MUSH, THE RELEASE OF CARBON COULD PUSH CLIMATE CHANGE TO A TIPPING POINT. SEPT ...

PHOTOGRAPHS BY BARRY ROSENTHAL NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LOOKING AT THE EARTH FROM EVERY POSSIBLE ANGLE PROOF 8 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ...

WHAT THE TIDE BRINGS IN An endless supply of ocean trash provides the material for an ongoing art project. VOL. 236 NO. 3 SEPTEM ...

PROOF PREVIOUS PAGES: Artist Barry Rosenthal builds these assemblages to illustrate the extent of marine pol- lution. He keeps t ...

ABOVE: These objects have little in common beyond their shades of white—and their slow degradation by ocean waves, harsh sunligh ...

PROOF Rosenthal created an angular portrait out of pens, pencils, and markers. He finds the writing utensils strewn by the hundr ...

Manufacturers design products such as plastic utensils and to-go cups to be used only once. But these items don’t go away: Scien ...

THE BACKSTORY TRASH FROM A NEW YORK BEACH IS ASSEMBLED INTO VIBRANT AND SOBERING SCULPTURES. BEACHES ACROSS THE PLANET share man ...

THERE MAY BE NOTHING more self-defining than our tastes. Whether in food, wine, romantic partners, or political candidates, our ...

EMBARK | THE BIG IDEA SCIENCE HAS SHOWN THAT YOU ARE NOT WHO YOU THINK YOU ARE. THERE ARE BIOLOGICAL GREMLINS DRIVING EVERY ACTI ...

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EMBARK | THE BIG IDEA the beach one evening contemplating life; I was born this way. The genetic components to human sexuality a ...

SOURCE: NASA/JPL/SWRI/MSSS A SOLAR SYSTEM GIANT, READY FOR ITS CLOSE-UP IMAGE BY KEVIN GILL As NASA’s Juno probe circles Jupiter ...