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VOLCANIC LIGHTNING CAN HELP WARN OF DANGEROUS ERUPTIONS

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New National Geographic Recycled iPET Luggage

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MARS 2 Returns

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NEW SCENIC LUXURY RIVER CRUISES LAUNCHED

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TRAVEL WITH NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Planet Or Plastic?

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NEW OCEAN EXPEDITONS LAUNCHED

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VOLCANIC LIGHTNING CAN HELP WARN OF DANGEROUS ERUPTIONS

These dramatic light shows could soon be just as useful as they are beautiful.
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New National Geographic Recycled iPET Luggage

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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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MARS 2 Returns

Premieres Wednesday 9.30pm AEDT/NZDT

Dubbed impressive, inspiring and scientifically honest by critics. It's 2042 when the International Mars Science Foundation astronauts have developed a fully-fledged colony.
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NEW SCENIC LUXURY RIVER CRUISES LAUNCHED

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Planet Or Plastic?

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National Geographic launches a multiyear initiative to reduce single-use plastics and their impact on the world’s oceans. Are you willing to choose the planet? Take your pledge now.
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NEW OCEAN EXPEDITONS LAUNCHED

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Take The Pledge Now!

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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 Watch the art of soba noodle making in Japan Known for its nutty flavour, soba is a centuries-old staple of Japanese cuisine. The noodles are made by combining buckwheat flour and water. The dough is kneaded, rolled out, and cut evenly into thin noodles, similar in thickness to spaghetti. Gaining popularity in the 1600s during Japan's Edo period, the eating of soba noodles grew due to their health benefits and ability to prevent beriberi, a disease caused by thiamine (vitamin B-1) deficiency. Today, you can find soba noodles in restaurants around the world, served chilled with dipping sauce (zaru soba) or in a warm broth (bukkake soba).

Watch the art of soba noodle making in Japan

Follow Video Big Cat Week Trailer 2019 In its ninth year, this annual event delivers an all-new roaring lineup that puts the spotlight on heartwarming, surprising and inspiring stories of big cats around the world

Big Cat Week Trailer 2019

Follow Video Meanwhile In Australia 2 Trailer Follow Nick Cummins on a road trip along the top end of Australia from the Whitsundays to Cape Tribulation where he’s on the hunt for the characters that give the area its charisma, its ingenuity in the face of adversity, and its reason for a cold beer at the end of the day

Meanwhile In Australia 2 Trailer

An Evening With The World's Greatest Explorer

Event An Evening With The World's Greatest Explorer

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

Volcanic lightning can help warn of dangerous eruptions

News Volcanic lightning can help warn of dangerous eruptions

These dramatic light shows could soon be just as useful as they are beautiful.

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Best travel photos of 2018

7 ways wildlife won in 2018

News 7 ways wildlife won in 2018

Elephants, rhinos, whales, and other imperilled species received a boost this year.

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

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Best travel photos of 2018

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Here are the year's best photos from National Geographic Travel.

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