In the next 25 years there will be nine billion people on our planet. How will we feed ourselves? National Geographic photographer John Stanmeyer travels around the world to capture the impact of rising food prices on people and our planet. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ Get More Nat Geo Live: …
Read More »Why Lionfish Should Be Your Favorite Fish to Eat | Nat Geo Live
Venomous lionfish, native to parts of the Indian and South Pacific Oceans, have now taken up residence in southeastern waters of the United States and in the Caribbean. With the ability to reproduce quickly and eat just about anything half their size, and with no natural predators in the Atlantic …
Read More »Making Artificial Limbs More Comfortable | Nat Geo Live
During the decade-long civil war in Sierra Leone, rebels would cut off the arms and legs of civilians as a scare tactic, leaving behind thousands of war amputees. After the war, 2015 National Geographic Emerging Explorer David Moinina Sengeh, who was born and raised in Sierra Leone, became involved in …
Read More »Creating Objects That Build Themselves | Nat Geo Live
What if, in the future, a chair could morph its shape to fit your own unique body so it is truly comfortable? National Geographic Emerging Explorer Skylar Tibbits just might be able to make this a reality. As the director of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, Tibbits is taking 3-D …
Read More »Photographing Pandas and their Return to the Wild | Nat Geo Live
China has finally cracked the secret of how to breed pandas in captivity. The country has established a successful breeding program, with the ultimate goal of releasing these captive-bred animals into the wild. With only 1,800 giant pandas left in the world, this is a critical breakthrough for the species’ …
Read More »Photographing the Beauty of Life in the Shadow of War | Nat Geo Live
“What if we chose to illuminate the things that unite us as human beings rather than just the things that divide us?” This is the question photojournalist Ami Vitale seeks to answer in her work documenting war zones. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ Get More Nat Geo Live: http://bit.ly/MoreNatGeoLive About Nat …
Read More »Meru: Risk and Responsibility in Climbing | Nat Geo Live
World-renowned climber Jimmy Chin and filmmaker Elizabeth “Chai” Vasarhelyi talk about making Meru, a documentary about Chin, Conrad Anker, and Renan Ozturk’s attempt to make the first successful ascent of the Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru—a climb that has thwarted every previous summit attempt by the world’s most elite climbers. …
Read More »Meru: Filming the Epic Climb | Nat Geo Live
World-renowned climber Jimmy Chin and filmmaker Elizabeth “Chai” Vasarhelyi talk about the challenges of making Meru, a documentary about Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk’s attempt to make the first successful ascent of the Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru—a climb that has thwarted every previous summit attempt by the …
Read More »Searching for the World’s Last Pristine Seas | Nat Geo Live
Feeling like he was writing the obituary for our oceans while studying the human impact on our seas, marine ecologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Dr. Enric Sala decided to leave academia and devote his life to ocean conservation. He founded National Geographic’s Pristine Seas project and began a journey to …
Read More »Held Captive by Qaddafi’s Troops in Libya: A Photographer’s Story | Nat Geo Live
Determined to document the Libyan conflict in 2011, photojournalist Lynsey Addario snuck into Libya through Egypt—without a visa—with some fellow journalists. Well aware of the risk of being caught by Qaddafi’s forces, Addario continued to move forward with the rebels on the frontline in Ajdabiya so she could get the …
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