Most Recent Travel & Nature Slideshows
Top 10 Green Tourist Destinations for 2009
Since 2003, National Geographic Traveler has surveyed over 200 panelists asking for their top destinations and the results are maybe not as surprising as you might think. After five (more...)
What Happens to Cold Blooded Animals in a Warming World
The European Green Lizard, Lacerta viridis, shows off a blue head while catching some rays. Lizards and other so-called "cold-blooded" animals have complex biochemistry: sometimes they have 4 to (more...)
David Burdeny's Incredible Iceberg Photography
David Burdeny is an architect and interior designer. He is also a skilled photographer. His iceberg series shows that these frozen giants are far more than platforms for penguins: (more...)
Horrifying Plants That Eat the Living
Anyone who has seen Little Shop of Horrors has felt it: that sinking feeling that something is not right. And I'm not talking about Rick Moranis singing. I'm talking (more...)
Nature Can Be Creepy! The Strange, The Odd, and The Gross
Yeesh. Nature can create some frightening things. Like this naked mole rat. Far worse than many of the Halloween decorations you find littering the isles of big box stores, (more...)
The World's Most Lovable Invasive Species
Invasive species, we all know, pose a huge threat to biodiversity. Still, some surprising invaders are too cute, cuddly, or just plain beautiful to hate. Next to humans, the (more...)
Edward Burtynsky's "Oil"
Trucker's Jamboree, Walcott, Iowa, USA, 2003. In "Oil," Edward Burtynsky's latest series of landscape photographs, there's nary a drop of the black stuff to be found. Yet he still (more...)
Wildlife Photographs from the World's Most Dangerous Tidal Maelstrom
What kinds of creatures would you expect to find in the world's most powerful tidal maelstrom? Named from the Scandinavian words for "grinding current," the tides storm in and (more...)
Earth on Fire: The Awesome Power of Volcanic Eruptions, Captured in Pictures
Mount Etna - Italy At 10,922 feet, Italy's Mount Etna is the highest and one of the most active volcanoes in Europe. The eruption of 2002-2003, which lasted five (more...)
