National Geographic

National Geographic announced this week that the life-long bird-watcher is set to host a new series titled “Extraordinary Birder.”

‘Poaching bears to harvest their organs is cruel, and it’s destroying bear populations,’ one of the bill’s sponsors said

National Geographic’s famed green-eyed “Afghan Girl” has arrived in Italy as part of the West’s evacuation of Afghans following the Taliban takeover of the country.

National Geographic announced it was recognizing the body of water encircling the Antarctic as the Earth’s fifth ocean: the Southern Ocean

“National Geographic Presents: IMPACT with Gal Gadot” is a documentary short series that follows women from around the world who are making a difference in their communities. Among them is Detroit figure skating coach Kameryn Everett, who was joined by one of her students, 8-year-old poet Livvy, for a conversation with LX News host Tabitha Lipkin and documentary director Vanessa...

When a killer whale circled back toward wildlife photographer Brian Skerry in the middle of the ocean after discarding the giant sting ray it was devouring, panic is not what came to mind: “Part of my brain is thinking I can’t believe what I’m seeing,” recalled Skerry.

A journalist with National Geographic has been shot in the leg while interviewing a purported drug dealer in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a city just south of El Paso, Texas.

If you’re fed up with remakes, you’re not likely going to be pleased with Disney’s plans to take on Netflix. But if you’d like to see an unsupervised child fend off a home invasion for the sixth time in 29 years, you’re in luck. In an earnings call Tuesday, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that the company plans to reboot...

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson will keep his job as head of the Hayden Planetarium at New York’s American Museum of Natural History after the museum concluded its investigation into sexual misconduct accusations against him. A museum spokesman said in a statement Thursday that based on the results of the investigation, Tyson “remains an employee and director of the Hayden Planetarium.”...

“Cosmos” and “StarTalk” host Neil deGrasse Tyson will return to airwaves following a completed investigation by National Geographic Channel, the network announced in a statement Friday.

The documents detail an intelligence-gathering effort by the United States and Mexican authorities, targeting more than 50 people including journalists, an attorney, and immigration advocates.

Mattel is partnering with National Geographic to create a line of Barbie dolls highlighting occupations centered around exploration, science, conservation and research in which women are underrepresented, the El Segundo-based toymaker announced Thursday.

The current season of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “Star Talk” series is on hold amid sexual misconduct claims against the prominent astrophysicist. National Geographic channel said Thursday that new episodes of the science-based talk show won’t air until an investigation involving Tyson is completed. Last December, National Geographic Networks and Fox said they would examine claims that Tyson behaved in a...

Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson will be investigated by Fox and National Geographic Networks after allegations of sexual misconduct were leveled against him. Patheos.com published accounts Thursday from two women who say that Tyson behaved in a sexually inappropriate manner with them. Tyson was the host of “Cosmos” on Fox in 2014 and a new edition of the series was...

The fifth season of astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson’s show StarTalk is set to return to National Geographic on Monday, Nov. 12. Degrasse Tyson came to NBC’s studios to talk about some of this season’s highlights and his favorite science-related pop culture moments.

Environmentalists scored a major victory in Sacramento Thursday after California lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to phase out the use of a controversial type of fishing gear, known as drift gillnets: mile-long nets blamed for unintentionally killing thousands of sea creatures, including endangered animals.

Now on its third day, the 2018 San Diego Comic Con is in full swing. Here are some of Saturday’s highlights.

Koko the gorilla who mastered sign language, raised kittens and once playfully tried on the glasses of the late actor Robin Williams, has died. She was 46. The Gorilla Foundation says the western lowland gorilla died in her sleep at the foundation’s preserve in California’s Santa Cruz mountains on Tuesday.

Archaeologists in northern Peru say they have found evidence of what could be the world’s largest single case of child sacrifice. The pre-Columbian burial site, known as Las Llamas, contains the skeletons of 140 children who were between the ages of five and 14 when they were ritually sacrificed during a ceremony about 550 years ago, experts who led the...

National Geographic acknowledged on Monday that it covered the world through a racist lens for generations, with its magazine portrayals of bare-breasted women and naive brown-skinned tribesmen as savage, unsophisticated and unintelligent. “We had to own our story to move beyond it,” editor-in-chief Susan Goldberg told The Associated Press in an interview about the yellow-bordered magazine’s April issue, which is...