National Geographic - USA (2020-04)

FIRST EARTH DAY On April 22, an estimated 20 million people march in U.S. streets to call attention to the urgent need for envir ...

ALASKA WILD- LANDS PROTECTED The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act sets aside more than 100 million acres of wilde ...

BAN ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ELEPHANT IVORY It briefly slows poaching of African elephants. By 2016 Kenya is burning ivory to d ...

HONEYBEE COLONIES COLLAPSE Beekeepers begin reporting the mys- terious disappear- ance of worker bees, which is leading to the c ...

AMAZON RAINFOREST WILDFIRES Fires linked to deforestation blanket much of Brazil in smoke, stoking fears that parts of the rainf ...

We believe that seeing the world’s most threatened species in their natural environment will inspire you to protect them and the ...

EARTH DAY 2070 THE PESSIMIST’S GUIDE TO FIFTY YEARS AGO WE CELEBRATED THE FIRST EARTH DAY. WHERE WILL WE BE 50 YEARS FROM NOW? O ...

ON THE COVER Unchecked climate change will hit Africa especially hard. IMAGINARY FORCES THE CASE FOR CATASTROPHE The world will ...

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NUCLEAR SETBACK A tourist in Chernobyl, Ukraine, dons a gas mask to snap a selfie near the containment shell surrounding the nuc ...

WE’RE IN TROUBLE OUR RECKLESS CONSUMPTION AND ABUSE OF RESOURCES HAVE MADE THE WORLD A DEADLIER PLACE FOR US—AND FOR THE REST OF ...

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PLASTIC THREAT Indo-Pacific sergeants swim around a plastic bag near Taiwan. An estimated 8.8 million tons of plastic waste ente ...

BIGGER BLAZES Men dodge embers as they try to save a house in Ventura, California, during the 2017 Thomas fire. Burning a thousa ...

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LOSING THEIR PLACE A jaguar’s image is projected onto a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border— the photographer’s effort to call at ...

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COAL’S IMPACT A family celebrates a wedding in the shadow of a coal plant in Datong, China. Coal is the single biggest source of ...

“A UNIQUE DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY is ending,” Walter Cronkite intoned on the CBS Evening News on April 22, 1970. The inaugural c ...