Think of nature and we think of color: a red sunset, a green forest, a blue ocean. Such scenes, simply described and instantly imaginable, are actually made up of a myriad of hues, tints, and ...

This story appears in the June 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. In an earthen pit in central China, under what used to be their village’s persimmon orchard, three middle-aged women ...

Innocence, purity, peace. The color white evokes images of everything from brides to blizzards, from cleanliness to a blank canvas. Its meaning in culture and custom throughout history is as ...

Dressed in pink from head to toe and surrounded by her many pink possessions, four-year-old Jeeyoo strikes a pose in her Seoul, South Korea, bedroom for a 2007 photograph. Also in Seoul, six-year ...

This story appears in the September 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. For sheer breadth of freakish anatomical features, the chameleon has few rivals. A tongue far longer than its body ...

The world is full of animals and plants displaying a full spectrum of colors, but for some species, time is running out. These Gouldian finches show how colorful nature can be and what we might ...