National Geographic - USA (2020-04)

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ADVERTORIAL FOR DOW PROJECT BUTTERFLY is helping innovative solutions take flight to fight Africa’s plastic waste challenge. In ...

ADVERTORIAL FOR DOW “ Without waste infrastructure, trash is thrown into rivers, streets, beaches, or burned.” KEIRAN SMITH, CO- ...

MY MOTHER’S BROWN HAIR is long and parted in the center. She is sewing a eucalyptus seed- pod to a dress made of pale green drap ...

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OPTIMIST’S GUIDE (^) | THE BIG IDEA and cities around the world. The Maverick, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Paul Avery wrote ...

But change can happen faster than many people appreciate. Cars replaced horses within 15 years in many places. For thousands of ...

OPTIMIST’S GUIDE (^) | THE BIG IDEA Breathing in, breathing out Preserving tropical forests like this one, part of Arfak Moun- t ...

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Mace, a biodiversity expert at University College London (UCL). “We also have to have people living with and alongside and among ...

Learn more about this project at natgeo.com/alliance TO STOP PLASTIC WASTE WE NEED A PLACE TO START Without widespread infrastru ...

The 2015 Paris Agreement included a mechanism for richer coun- tries to help poorer ones, to begin to make things right. The fun ...

ANIMALS (^) | OPTIMIST’S GUIDE CRITICALLY ENDANGERED Sumatran rhinoceros Poaching and human en croach ment have left fewer than ...

OPTIMIST’S GUIDE (^) | DECODER AT THE STORE Green your coffee habit. Get a reusable filter pod for your single-use coffee machin ...

SOURCE: NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL (NRDC.ORG) INDIVIDUAL ACTS ALONE CAN’T FIX GLOBAL ILLS. BUT EACH OF US CAN DO OUR PART ...

OPTIMIST’S GUIDE | BREAKTHROUGHS THE APPARATUS ABOVE derives energy from the rise and fall of ocean waves and converts it into e ...

ILLUSTRATION: ANNA PARINI NEW CHALLENGES FOR US ALL BY CHARLES C. MANN THE SCARY PREDICTIONS OF 1970 INSPIRED ACTIONS THAT MADE ...

OPTIMIST’S GUIDE (^) | DATA SHEET DIANA MARQUES, NGM STAFF; KELSEY NOWAKOWSKI. SOURCES: HUMAN PROGRESS, CATO INSTITUTE; FAO; WOR ...

DATA SHEET (^) | OPTIMIST’S GUIDE SOURCES: BARRO-LEE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT DATASET; UN STATISTICS DIVISION; WORLD BANK *W ater ...

Tail fins point into the rain at the Cadillac Ranch RV Park in Amarillo, Texas. For a century the auto- mobile has been an Ameri ...