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Strong, lightweight and made from recycled single-use plastics, this sustainable luggage range helps protect our oceans and marine life by removing bottles from the single-use cycle–saving energy, resources and reducing waste.
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Planet or Plastics? National Geographic launches a multiyear initiative to reduce single-use plastics and their impact on the world’s oceans.

Follow Video Mysterious sea 'worm' spotted near New Zealand February 20, 2019 - Two divers filming off the coast of New Zealand spotted something that looked like an enormous plastic bag. Upon closer inspection, the divers discovered that it was an eight-metre-long, translucent sea “worm.” It’s called a pyrosome, and it is a free-flowing colony of individual organisms called zooids. Zooids are small multicellular organisms that filter feed by pumping water through their bodies and catching plankton. The pyrosome can be as small as a centimetre or as big as the one in this video. At night, they swim up to the surface to feed, and when the sun comes up, they dive back into the depths.

Follow Video Free Solo | Trailer From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi (“MERU”) and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin comes National Geographic Documentary Film’s FREE SOLO, a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of the free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world’s most famous rock ... the 3,000ft El Capitan in Yosemite National Park ... without a rope.

Follow Video Watch how crabs make their own ‘hats’ using sponges These creative crustaceans spend hours crafting their headgear, which may protect against predators, new research reveals.

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Direct from a sold-out UK tour, Sir Ranulph Fiennes will tour Australia in 2019 for the first time.

News Meet the newest known moon of Neptune

The wee world, named after a mythical sea creature, has a surprisingly brutal past.

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News New tiny tyrannosaur helps show how T. rex got big

The gangly predator fills in a crucial gap in our understanding of how tyrannosaurs came to dominate during the Cretaceous.

Follow The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer coming at it in the background. Further Joel Sartore