1 - 5
6 - 10 21 - 30
11 - 20 More than 30
NUMBER OF
England
32
articles
France
24
articles Russia
18
Turkey 10
Egypt
8
Jordan
6
Pakistan
6
Vietnam
(^7) New GuineaPapua
10
Japan 12
Scotland 6
Greenland 7
Spain 6
Israel 11 Iraq^11
Tanzania 8
Namibia 6
Germany 6
Ireland 7
China
Tibet 6 13
Nepal
10
Australia
14
India
25
articles
Italy
40
articles
Kenya 11
FEATURE ARTICLES
Around the World in 50 Years
FROM OFFBEAT AMERICANA TO FOREIGN
CRISES, THERE’S HARDLY A PLACE SMITHSONIAN
HASN’T REPORTED FROM
By Ted Scheinman and 5W Infographics
June 1972
June 1986
July 1974
April 2006
November 2017
For the Love of Lemurs
An American biologist’s
dedication to the diminutive
arboreal primate of Madagascar
Crossing Southern Australia
with the “Tea & Sugar”
The wild history of the train
that supplied the Outback
Killer Whales Have Fearsome Teeth
and a Strange Gentleness to Man
Naturalist and Aqua-Lung inventor
Jacques-Yves Cousteau makes
friends with orcas
The Birth of a Killer
Melinda Liu asks if
China is ground
zero for a future
virus pandemic?
Carrying the Fire
NASA astronaut
Michael Collins refl ects
on his Moon landing
September 1973
Future Is Famine for Ten
Million South of Sahara
A probing dispatch about
desertifi cation in an over-
looked part of the world
ONE COCONUT TOO MANY? After nearly 600 issues of the magazine, an unscientifi c sampling of cover subjects yields the following breakdown
U.S. PRESIDENTS
16
U.S. PRESIDENT
COCONUT HEAD
Harry S. Truman
1
May 1997
PANDAS
4
January 2014
BICYCLES
2
February 1972
ANTI-POLLUTION
BLACKSMITH
1
December 1990 May 1973
DOGS
6
March 1983
ASTRONAUTS
3
June 2019
MASKS
5
May 1982