On this day 128 years ago, the National Geographic Society published the very first issue of its magazine, a mere eight months after the society was established with the purpose "to increase and ...

The magazine was also nominated for best photography and best single issue in this year's National Magazine Awards. This photo of Amazon forest converted into farmland was among the work featured ...

We published the first issue of National Geographic in October 1888. The magazine looked quite different from today’s, with a plain brown cover and not a single photograph in its 98 pages ...