These are some of the most common geographic misconceptions ... Contrary to the map many of us have in our minds, almost all of South America is farther east than North America.

To build a 30-foot wall in the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge ... border wall could “alter the evolutionary history of North America forever,” he says. Then there’s the light ...

He included National Geographic’s first published hurricane map: a sketch of the wind paths that had fomented into storms in the North Atlantic Ocean over the past two years. The lines curved ...

Before it was known as the Loneliest Road in America, Route 50 was a thruway during the 1850s Gold Rush. Video by Mathias Svold, National Geographic In July 1986, the publication honored the ...