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Editor's Note
This month, Chris Johns reflects on the nature of exploration.
Fireside Spirit
Photographer Karla Gachet describes an encounter with Waorani culture.
The New Age of Exploration
Features
The Greatest Survival Story
Douglas Mawson was alone, almost without food—and still had 95 polar miles to go.
Rain Forest For Sale
Demand for oil is squeezing the life out of one of the world’s wildest places.
Restless Genes
Scientists are trying to learn what drove us out from Africa and on to the moon and beyond.
Interactives
Telling the Yasuní Story
We sent a team of five photographers into the heart of the Amazon, where big oil is threatening one of the last wild frontiers.
Tree of Life
Investigate some of the living things that call the giant sequoia home.
Elephant Ivory Poaching
See where elephants are losing ground—and where smuggled ivory goes.
Photography
Visions of Earth
Browse through visions of the world as seen through photographers’ eyes.
Flashback: Seating Arrangements
A 1949 photo shows a U.S. Air Force pilot testing the prone position pilot bed.
Weekly Wrapper
Wrap your desktop in the top-rated images from the Daily Dozen.
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The Top 10 Photos of 2012
More than 900 images were published in 2012. Editor in Chief Chris Johns chose his top ten.
Filming the World's Fastest Runner
See how we filmed the world's fastest runner with one of the world’s fastest cameras.
Among the Emperors
Join Paul Nicklen as he captures emperor penguins soaring through the sea and launching their bodies out of the water onto the ice.
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