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New National Geographic Recycled iPET Luggage

Shop The Range With 30% off using NGO30 code

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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Explore exotic destinations by cruising the world’s greatest rivers linking grand cities, forgotten villages, and endless countryside with Scenic Luxury River Cruises. Gain unique insight from your National Geographic guides and photographers.
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TRAVEL WITH NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

We've been exploring the world for over 130 years. Now, you too can travel with National Geographic with expeditions covering land, air and sea. Find your ultimate trip or destination.
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Planet Or Plastic?

Take Your Pledge Now

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

Closer than you have ever imagined

Explore exotic destinations from PONANT’s luxury, small group cruise ships. Gain unique insight from your National Geographic guides, photographers and experts and support the National Geographic Society.

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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 Caffeine 101 Nearly 90% of the United States population has at least one caffeinated beverage every day. Learn about the chemistry of caffeine, how it causes increased alertness and focus, and how caffeine is capable of causing overdoses.

Follow Video MARS 1 Recap The greatest human adventure yet. Watch the recap of MARS, Season one where humans colonised the red planet, Mars. Continue the story, MARS 2 premieres Wednesday 9.30pm November 14th on National Geographic.

Follow Video MARS 2 | Trailer Can humans co-exist on the red planet Mars? MARS returns with a hybrid, six-episode arc that alternates between scripted drama and documentary sequences to predict what life will be like on the Red Planet forecasted by what’s happening now on Earth. It

News These wild monkeys thrive in Florida—and carry a deadly virus

Descendants of theme-park escapees, a population of rhesus macaques in a Florida state park may soon double in size—a recipe for trouble.

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Follow Photos California's wildfires

News Why California's wildfires are so hard to fight

The state is full of steep canyons and rolling hillsides that firefighters struggle to reach.

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