This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... when Namibia at last gained independence from South Africa, it was one of the first countries in the world to write ...

Surrounded by the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, South Africa contains some of the most breathtaking scenery on earth. National Geographic Channel has filmed nine remarkable short films in which some ...

But thanks to the amazing work of anthropologists and paleontologists like those working on National Geographic's Genographic ... early humans spread from East Africa all around the world.

Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) supplies livelihoods and critical minerals but has been linked to conflict and environmental degradation. We enable monitoring of this largely informal sector by ...