July 25, 2019
Stories tagged "National Geographic"
July 18, 2019
One Cool Thing: Going to the Moons
You don’t have to be an astronaut to go to the moon! National Geographic has created a really cool interactive Atlas of the Moons — ALL of the moons in our solar system. Earth is the only planet in our solar system with just one moon — and you can...June 19, 2019
Yikes, We’re Eating 2,000 Pieces of Plastic Each Week
A new study put out by the University of Newcastle in Australia has revealed that humans are eating, swallowing or breathing in about 2,000 tiny pieces of plastic each week, an amount equal to the weight of one credit card. That’s some literal food for thought...May 30, 2019
Hero of the Week: Ma Jun, Chinese Anti-Pollution Activist
This week we salute Ma Jung, a former investigative reporter in China who has been pressuring the Chinese government and private companies for more than a decade to reduce pollution. For good reason, according to the World Health Organization, a staggering 1 million...One Smart Kid: Winner of the National Geographic GeoBee
Nihar Janga, an 8th-grader from Canyon Ridge Middle School in Austin, Texas, won the 31st annual National Geographic GeoBee held in Washington, D.C. But get this — in 2016, Janga was the co-champion of the Scripps National Spelling Bee! It was a very...May 12, 2019
One Wild Thing: The Rio Grande River
A new documentary that premiered last week doubles as both a gorgeous nature film giving the public a rare, up-close view of the rugged landscape along the 1200-mile US-Mexico border spanning the state of Texas, as well as a political film about the tragic harms to...April 26, 2019
Special Earth Week Bonus EXCLUSIVE Interview with Gary Knell, Chairman of National Geographic Partners
It has been a huge year for National Geographic, including winning an Oscar for “Free Solo” as Best Documentary film and merging forces with Disney. We caught up with Gary to talk about all that, plus his vision for National Geographic’s next phase....April 8, 2019
Two Cool Things: Great New Nature Documentaries
Environmentally-themed documentary films and TV series are having a Renaissance. Last week, National Geographic debuted a new six-part nature series from Guillermo Navarro, the Academy Award-winning cinematographer of the feature film Pan’s Labyrinth. The...April 4, 2019
One Tall Thing: Tallest Tropical Tree Found In Borneo
National Geographic broke the story yesterday that a team of researchers from the U.K. this week found the world’s first 100-meter tall tropical tree in the forests of Sabah, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo. To put it in perspective, if this tree was...March 28, 2019