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Summer is one of the busiest travel times of the year in a lot of places-with a few exceptions.

Two local men are traveling into the wild - to a place where no white man has ever been seen by the natives.

"Most search-and-rescue robots are miniaturized tanks: They're big, clunky, and travel in straight lines.

The man in the YouTube video was a safari guide at Kruger National Park, South Africa, where he foolishly charges headlong at an absolutely massive bull African elephant after being goaded and cheered on by the people around him.

Every year National Geographic asks the world's adventurers to enter their epic photographs into its Traveler Photo Contest - and each year the submissions prove stunning.

Crew members unload a catch of sockeye salmon at Craig, Alaska, in 2005. Researchers say fish are being found in new areas because of changing ocean temperatures.

Apocalyptic, catastrophic, devastating: All words used to describe chytrid fungus infections that are wiping out amphibians around the world, including hundreds of frog and salamander species.

To more than 2 billion people around the world, the soothing sound of crickets chirping might also signal the availability of a delicious snack.

Remember your favorite grandparent - the one who was smart, sweet, funny, and wise, if a bit cranky and repetitive? "The Last Train to Zona Verde," Paul Theroux's latest major travel book, is a lot like that.

I wrote, a few weeks ago, about the joy of discovering the television of a foreign place .

Charlie Mills, a sixth-grade student at Trinity Christian School in Montville , won third place in the New Jersey National Geographic Bee at Rowan University on April 5. This year's competition marked the 25th anniversary of the geography bee, which is orchestrated by the National Geographic Society.

The U.N.'s latest map of locust risk in Africa and the Middle East If you thought the coming cicada wave was bad, look to North Africa and the Middle East for some perspective: Springtime locust migrations are just starting there, and eight countries could face serious crop damage and even famine, a U.N. report warns, as billions of bugs begin to ... (more)

The great hammerhead shark, the largest species of hammerhead sharks, is locally endangered in some parts of the world.

As temperatures bottom out in the low 30s overnight Wednesday, it's possible that ongoing rain will turn to snow and some will accumulate, As temperatures bottom out in the low 30s overnight Wednesday, it's possible that ongoing rain will turn to snow and some will accumulate, Congress and the administration need to take the steps necessary to ... (more)

At the start of the 1980s there were more than a million elephants in Africa. During that decade, 600,000 were destroyed for ivory products.

Florida's year-round warm weather is not just appealing to tourists. The giant African land snail is posing a risk to the state's vegetation, as it proliferates in the hot, humid climate, wildlife officials warn.

Human beings are sophisticated creatures equipped with opposable thumbs and higher brain functions than any of our fellow creatures.

Often found hip-deep in Madagascar mud, Dr. Brian Fisher is a modern day explorer who has devoted his life to the study and conservation of ants and biodiversity around the world.

Florida's year-round warm weather is not just appealing to tourists. The giant African land snail is posing a risk to the state's vegetation, as it proliferates in the hot, humid climate, wildlife officials warn.

"In this case, the moon only just clips the edge of the deepest part of the shadow, called the umbra," said Mark Hammergren, an astronomer at Adler Planetarium in Chicago, Illinois, according to National Geographic.