Contributing Editor Dr. Jordan Schaul recently asked the world famous, celebrity models and animal activists—the Barbi Twins—to find out how some of their celebrity friends are using their clout to help animals around the world. Within a few ...
Here’s a hard to believe statistic, by some esitmates there are more tigers in captivity in the state of Texas than there are tigers roaming free in the wild in all of Asia. There’s no debating the fact ...
By Boyd Matson One of the benefits of being in the water with humpback whales is that it makes me appear svelte by comparison. That’s not the primary reason I’m snorkeling with humpbacks in the waters of the ...
By Boyd Matson Showing off for the girls, pushing and shoving, picking fights, refusing to listen to their mothers, I could be describing teenage boys, but in this case I’m talking teenage male elephants. Sometimes it’s hard to ...
By Boyd Matson Bob Ballard, National Geographic Explorer in Residence, has made same amazing undersea discoveries in his career, finding the Titanic, the Bismark, PT 109, and numerous other famous ships once lost to the oceans, but he has never had ...
Big cats are a passion of ours here at National Geographic. The Big Cat Initiative is working to save lions, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, and jaguars. You can help too, through the Cause an Uproar campaign. Recently, National Geographic Weekend radio ...
By Boyd Matson “Trust me on this one kids, spitting impala poop is really an honest to goodness game in South Africa.” As might be expected I had a little trouble at first trying to convince the 15 kids with me ...
Pak Bastarian was once an illegal logger, cutting trees in the forests of West Kalimantan, Borneo where he grew up. He sits cross-legged on the tile floor of his tidy house recalling those days. “I don’t know how many ...
At first glance Europa, Jupiter’s fourth largest moon, may not seem like the most likely place to find extraterrestrial life. The temperature is regularly -260 degrees Fahrenheit. Its surface is covered in a layer of ice several miles thick. ...
Filmmaker and alternative-energy proponent James Cameron, who along with marine ecologist Enric Sala, is a new National Geographic Explorer in Residence, sat down with Boyd Matson for an interview on the National Geographic Weekend radio program. Cameron tells Boyd ...
By Boyd Matson Listen to Boyd’s interview with Andrea Turkalo, then subscribe to the National Geographic Weekend podcast. [audio:http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-content/audio/ngwkd1125-hour1_seg1-cb1308333029.mp3,http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-content/audio/ngwkd1125...
Last week a group email went out to the staff of National Geographic. This is what it said: Date: Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:37 PM Subject: Bear Urine- not a joke A package arrived at Geo…(talk about weird) 2 small bottles of ...
By Boyd Matson If you get a chance to go to a pygmy pool party don’t miss it. The Ba’Aka or pygmies as they are commonly called can put on quite the show. In a kind of water ...
By Boyd Matson Listen to Boyd tell the tale of the pygmy pool party on National Geographic Weekend (3:50) [audio:http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-content/audio/ngwkd1123-hour2_seg5-cb1307044290.mp3|titles=Pygmy Pool Party] It’s not everyday you ...
When 2011 National Geographic Emerging Explorer Juan Martinez was growing up in South Central Los Angeles, he never imagined he’d be working to change an entire generation’s relationship with nature. But as Martinez tells Boyd Matson on NG Weekend, ...