From new cruise ships to major theme park openings and global events, 2026 is packed with fresh family vacation ideas worth ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler [( For much of the second half of the 20th century, the American outdoors attracted a particular kind of devotee. They moved easily between disciplines, took seasonal work ...

New cruise ships and new ways to experience favorite destinations top our list of 2026's best family vacation ideas.

New research broadens our understanding of how gray wolves interact with and influence aquatic habitats. On Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, gray wolves have been observed engaging in an unusual ...

Southern sea otters living along California’s coast are struggling in warmer seas, with new threats and changing food sources. They, like the other two sea otter subspecies, are classified as ...

National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions will retire two vessels built in the 1980s and charter an Aurora Expeditions ship for three years, starting in 2027. The chartered ship, the Greg Mortimer, ...

Day and night, a ballet of sorts unfolds at the Seattle Aquarium. Behind panes of glass and rocky walls, schools of fish glide elegantly between each other, a tiny seahorse unfurls its coiled tail and ...

From an elusive jaguar to an industrious beaver, photographers captured iconic animal moments around the world. While monitoring the burrow of a rare giant armadillo in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

The opportunity to solidify US influence and trade integration in the Caucasus won’t last forever. Azerbaijan sits in one of the world’s roughest neighborhoods, squeezed between Russia to the north ...

America’s long-delayed National Security Strategy (NSS) arrived while Europeans were still reeling from President Donald Trump’s 28-point “peace plan” for Russia and Ukraine. The NSS—essentially a ...

The December issue of the magazine highlights 25 images chosen by editors as the most poignant and stirring photographs of 2025. Amazon's winter sale is overflowing with New Year's deals on brands ...