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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

Travel With Us

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 Starstruck Join us as we embark on Starstruck: a yearlong celebration of space. Starstruck is a wonder-inducing, intergalactic journey, exploring the past, present, and future of space across our storytelling, experience, and travel platforms. Culminating with the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 moon landing next July, Starstruck will rally around the spirit of space exploration, and the nostalgia, curiosity, and feeling of limitless possibility that it brings. We want to inspire people to “look up” by bringing the awe and wonder of space to audiences around the world.

Follow Video Interview With Vanessa Hushen Why turn recycled plastic bottles into luggage? We asked the creator of our new National Geographic Recycled iPet Luggage range.

Follow Video Plastic Free Tips From Vanessa How can you help reduce your need for single-use plastic? The creator of our recycled iPET luggage range gives us a few tips.

News An ode to earwig wings, which break standard laws of origami

Earwigs may look dull—until they open their wings, shimmering structures that expand 10-fold and lock without the use of muscles.

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News “Seabin” device aids in cleaning up our oceans

A floating rubbish “Seabin” is being used as an inexpensive way to remove trash from our oceans.

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