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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.

Event Take The Pledge Now!

Planet or Plastics? National Geographic launches a multiyear initiative to reduce single-use plastics and their impact on the world’s oceans.

Follow Video How wildlife bounced back after civil war December 12, 2018 - In 1977, a 15-year civil war broke out in Mozambique. Wildlife populations in Gorongosa National Park plummeted as a side effect of the war. After years of rebuilding and protection, a 2018 aerial count revealed good news for Gorongosa wildlife.

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).

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

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.

News Huge reserves protect underwater mountains, endangered sea life

Argentina's government has voted to create two new marine parks that cover an area the size of Hungary.

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News He left photography to become a doctor. Could he go back?

Max Aguilera-Hellweg was pursuing a career in medicine. But then he received a surprise phone call.

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