National Geographic - USA (2021-11)

A leopard seal drifts next to an iceberg off the western coast of the Antarctic Pen- insula. Air bubbles released from the melti ...

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Only some 300 feet of this tabular iceberg’s estimated 3,000-foot height is visible at the surface. A portion of its submerged b ...

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Gentoo penguins at Neko Harbor incubate eggs in rocky nests and tend their chicks around a whale’s vertebra—a reminder of the An ...

AN INFLATABLE BOAT PULLS UP next to the snowy shore, and the gentoo penguins of Neko Harbor see people for the first time in alm ...

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A hundred thousand chinstrap penguins nest at Baily Head, Decep-tion Island, 70 miles north of the Antarctic Peninsula. Green mo ...

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krill feed great gatherings of other animals. Minke whales and humpbacks come to scoop up mouthfuls. Squid, fish, and penguins e ...

commission operates under the Antarctic Treaty, an agreement signed in 1959 by 12 nations that shelved their territorial dispute ...

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Gentoo penguins take a break on a drifting iceberg between rounds of foraging. They use claws on their feet to climb up the ice. ...

“If you explore the fishing patterns in the last 10 or 15 years, they have been consistently going to the same spots,” says Césa ...

Helen Scales wrote about the threats to emperor penguins in the June 2020 issue of the magazine. Photographer Thomas P. Peschak ...

What does a walk across the world teach about navigating our troubled century? By PAUL SALOPEK | Photographs by JOHN STANMEYER A ...

SHARE what you can. But most of all, REMEMBER. ...

While journalist Paul Salopek was in Myan- mar, pro-democracy demonstrations intensi- fied. Since the military seized power in F ...