The best of Nat Geo’s photo archive. Plus, help Scotland reclaim its wild heritage.
|  | Wednesday, November 2, 2022 | | | | |
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Over 115 years ago, National Geographic published its first picture essay and never looked back. We’ve just released a book featuring these recent images, which celebrate the power of photography today.
Here are a few of those images from this century, from heartwarming steps to save pandas (above) to pursuits of miniature wonders, Free Solo climbers, and distant steppes. Each image shows what makes our world so vivid and unique. Today’s newsletter features four dynamic photographers and Nat Geo Explorers—Ami Vitale, Anand Varma, Jimmy Chin, and Evgenia Arbugaeva. Enjoy!
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY ANAND VARMA | | | A hummingbird’s wing: Scientists use a fine mist created by ultrasonic foggers to visualize the airflow around the wing of an Anna’s hummingbird in flight. At the end of each half-stroke, its wings flip more than 90 degrees and reverse course. Hummingbirds are the only birds that can truly fly backward. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY JIMMY CHIN | | | Without ropes: With California’s Yosemite Valley far below, Alex Honnold free solos—which means climbing without ropes or safety gear—the 3,000-foot southwest face of El Capitan. Before he accomplished the feat on June 3, 2017, Honnold had spent nearly a decade thinking about the climb and more than a year and a half planning and training for it. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY EVGENIA ARBUGAEVA | | | The tundra princess: Wearing a curtain and a cardboard crown, Kristina Khudi becomes the “tundra princess” in the Nenets camp near the Kara Sea. For centuries, reindeer herders in Russia’s Arctic have migrated 800 miles a year. But they now face modern obstacles in their long journey: climate change and a giant natural gas field. Read and see more. | | | |
| PHOTO QUIZ: WHOSE PAWS ARE THESE? | |
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Whose paws are these? In the far north, you can determine a print’s freshness just by looking at them; or by feeling the texture of the snow. The prints of this animal on Canada’s Baffin Island led directly to a seal breathing hole, in the top middle of the frame above. And the animal? Click here for the answer! | | | |
 | PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT ORMEROD
| | Roll up your sleeves: The movement to return Scotland to its wild, forested glory is growing. Conservation organizations and individual landowners (like Alasdair Firth, pictured above) are working together to return native flora and fauna to the Highlands, from Eurasian beavers to wolves. Travelers are invited to dig in and help Scotland become the world’s first “rewilded” nation, Nat Geo reports.
Related: 5 wildly underrated natural escapes for 2023
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| | More than 23andMe: “We can look at history in a totally different way,” says native Hawaiian and Nat Geo Explorer Keolu Fox. A genomic scientist, Fox believes DNA can reveal amazing histories of Indigenous communities while creating a future where public health and medical research is in their hands. Hear Fox’s vision for the human genome in our latest episode of Overheard, Nat Geo’s podcast.
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Editor’s note: A Nat Geo story about a hurricane-struck Caribbean island’s effort to rebuild has been included in The Best Science and Writing 2022. But you can read it here now: How Barbuda wants to redevelop respecting its own traditions, written by Mikki K. Harris, a seventh-generation descendant of Barbudan people.
This newsletter has been curated and edited by Jen Tse, Sydney Combs, David Beard, and Heather Kim. Have an idea or a link? We'd love to hear from you at david.beard@natgeo.com. Thanks for reading. | | | |
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