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'I've had years to contemplate this moment, and I won't say there hasn't been dread': James Cameron relives his heart-stopping descent to the deepest part of the ocean in submersible just 43-inches wide He is no stranger to the power of the ocean, having made his name by recreating the sinking of the Titanic to spectacular effect.

University of New Hampshire journalism professor Tom Haines has begun a trans-USA journey to research America's energy frontier, and his journey began this week in Carbon County.

Uganda's investment and tourism image is at stake following stories on international news outlets showing privately-owned media houses under police siege.

The front cover of the May edition of National Geographic has an intriguing headline.

Exploring the world's waters, National Geographic photographer and Rolex ambassador David Doubilet has photographed in the depths of such places as the southwest Pacific, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Tasmania, Scotland, and the northwest Atlantic.

Jupiter, photographed by the Hubble space telescope, will join Mercury and Venus in the night sky May 24, 2013 through May 27, 2013 in a rare triple-planetary conjunction.

Stone Hill Middle School seventh-grader Akhil Rekulapelli was be among 10 finalists in the 25th annual National Geographic Geography Bee, which will be aired tonight.

Washington, May 23 : Twelve-year-old Indian-origin boy Sathwik Karnik won the 2013 National Geographic Bee by correctly naming Chimborazo, a peak in Ecuador, as the farthest point on earth from the centre of the earth.

Do you need a break from public policy buzzwords? Are you happy to go back to the days when cliffs were discussed occasionally on the National Geographic channel but not analyzed ad nauseum on CNBC? Are you tired of reading about austerity , austerians , anti-austerians and austeresis ? Okay, I may have made up the last one, but you've come to the ... (more)

Geography has $0 of funding but is one of the nine subjects in "No Child Left Behind." All the other subjects are funded - to some degree.

At nearly seven miles below the water's surface, the Mariana Trench is the deepest spot in Earth's oceans.

Last fall a group of nine soldiers arrived in Menemsha to compete in the Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby.

Based on tweets, a new map shows there is a lot of hate in some parts of the country.

Neelam Sandhu is all smiles as she stand by the National Geographic Bee sign for her preliminary round room Monday at tne Washington Plaza Hotel in Washington, D.C. - Neelam Sandhu, a student at Ross Lurgio Middle School, knows more about the world around her than your typical eighth-grader. Her knowledge will be on display today as she ... (more)

Former acting IRS Commissioner Steve Miller and Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, J. Russell George are sworn in before testifying before a full House Ways and Means committee hearing on 'Internal Revenue Service Targeting Conservative Groups endured a 26-month 501 application process with the Internal Revenue Service.

It's less about eating screaming bugs, and more about eating things that have been in the ground for 17 years.

Oregon's geography bee winner reached fifth place at the 25th annual National Geographic Bee competition in Washington D.C. Wednesday.

After many grueling rounds that tested geographic knowledge of lions in Botswana, mountain ranges in Asia, and port cities in England, 12-year-old Sathwik Karnik from Norfolk, Massachusetts, was named the winner of the 25th-annual National Geographic Bee .

With Jeopardy! ' s Alex Trebek retiring from the National Geographic Bee this year, geographic minds want to know-who will bee the next host? The answer is Soledad O'Brien , a CNN special correspondent, who will step into Trebek's worldly shoes starting in 2014.

Today, for the last time, host Alex Trebek will take the podium at the National Geographic Bee to test what our nation's stellar geography students know about Bavarian mountain ranges, borders in Eastern Europe, and Asian capital cities on the Han River, among other subjects.