National Geographic - USA (2021-03)

PROOF Nataliia Yuriivna Pylypenko passes time between trains by tending the garden at this trackside house, which is owned by th ...

Signal jobs like these have long been held by women, a holdover from the Soviet era when the govern- ment influenced workplace g ...

PROOF Kononivka Station, 113 km, is one of many stations known by their name and distance from a main city. That usually means K ...

No two railway houses look the same, but common traits are their small size—a single-story may be about 225 square feet—and thei ...

PROOF THE BACKSTORY FROM TINY TRACKSIDE HOUSES, UKRAINIAN SIGNAL OFFICERS KEEP TRAINS RUNNING SMOOTHLY AND MOTORISTS SAFE. Ukrai ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORE ILLUMINATING THE MYSTERIES—AND WONDERS—ALL AROUND US EVERY DAY PERHAPS FIRES, STORMS, AND VIRUSES FE ...

EXPLORE | THE BIG IDEA storm. By the time it hit Cameron Parish, early in the morning of August 27, it was the fifth fiercest hu ...

ILLUSTRATION: LEONARDO SANTAMARIA MARCH ...

EXPLORE | THE BIG IDEA diseases will become more common. Author (and frequent National Geographic contributor) David Quammen has ...

DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION FOSSIL FIND ANCIENT BUG ZAPPER ANALYSIS REVEALS FOSSIL IS THE OLDEST K ...

EXPLORE | DECODER Infrared heat sensors ACTUAL SIZE Black fire beetle Melanophila acuminata Black fire beetle larva Black-backed ...

SOURCES: RODNEY B. SIEGEL, INSTITUTE FOR BIRD POPULATIONS; VICTORIA A. SAAB, FOREST SERVICE; DANIEL YOUNG AND JACKI WHISENANT, U ...

EXPLORE | BEING THERE ROCK STEADY Moab, Utah, draws ‘moon walkers,’ stargazers, and adventurers. GETTING THE SHOT This image of ...

BY NORIE QUINTOS PHOTOGRAPH BY RENAN OZTURK The moon sets behind the rim of a canyon in Moab, Utah. 100 APPROXIMATE LENGTH, IN F ...

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PHOTO: JARED SOARES Adam Canaday, a journeyman coach driver at Colonial Williamsburg, stands next to his horse, Commodore. Canad ...