National Geographic News

A giant red-lighted door with a smoky atmosphere set the tone for a mystical collection that was all about Wu's heritage: Pure Asian history with notes of the Quing Dinasty and Chinese military empire silhouettes with a Film-Noir twist.

The work of an assistant professor at Western Michigan University will be featured in a National Geographic special, " Cave People of the Himalaya " on PBS next week.

A new television program airing on the National Geographic channel called " Doomsday Preppers " takes the idea of a self-sustained lifestyle to new limits.

National Geographic is seeking a Vice President of Retail and Special Sales to oversee and direction of the sales efforts of the Book Division, both Adult and Children's Books, into the retail and special markets.

And people would have laughed at so-called prophets standing on street corners shouting the end of the world is nigh.

LOST GOLD OF THE DARK AGES: WAR, TREASURE, AND THE MYSTERY OF THE SAXONS By Caroline Alexander Caroline Alexander's highly readable, 239-page coffee-table book, 'Lost Gold of the Dark Ages,' is filled with contemporary photographs, maps, art work, a timeline and lots of images of what is called the Staffordshire Hoard: 3,500 gold and silver ... (more)

As far as we can tell, there is no "Cape Cod Motel" on Cape Cod. The one pictured above is in Egg Harbor, WI.

Could the people of the ancient world still be of relevance to society today? According to Prof.

NatGeo hired the producers of a quick-turnaround British documentary that aired on the United Kingdom's Channel 4 to rework it for the United States.

Zebra Stripes Evolved to Repel Bloodsuckers? National Geographic Conventional wisdom says a zebra's black-and-white stripes camouflage the animal in tall grass-the better to evade the colorblind lion.

Underwater noises from off-shore exploration and construction are capable of confusing and even killing marine life - but now scientists believe bubbles could save the day for denizens of the deep sea.

National Geographic sure has good taste. One of the all-time great magazines recently dubbed Whitefish one of the 25 best ski towns in the world.

"I learned about the Maya from reading National Geographic. Now I am traveling to all these places I read about in the magazine in hopes of uncovering some of these mysteries on my own," Evans said.

Superman fought a very real enemy in radio shows of the 1940s: racial prejudice and the Ku Klux Klan .

A pileated woodpecker eats bright red crab apples from a tree east of International Falls, making a trio of ruffed grouse in the same tree nervous.

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I HOPE the enthusiasm of the City Government to avail of municipal or residual waste technology will not wane and die with the unceremonious withdrawal of Herhof of Germany's nebulous offer to set-up a multi-billion-peso complex that promises to process our garbage into something of value.

National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry shares images of underwater wonders he's captured over three decades in an appearance at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Byham Theater.

Adams County Sheriff Kimmy Rogers takes a novel approach to battling prescription drug abuse.

A new National Geographic special coming up on Sunday, February 12 is promising to answer a whole lot of questions about the grounding of the Costa Concordia last month.