National Geographic News At The Best Of Texas

See a supercell light up the Texas sky, U.S. Marines braving a sandstorm in Afghanistan, the Olympic torch reach the top of Mount Everest, and more.

Tens of thousands of animals are trapped in an ash-covered region of southern Chile after their owners have been forced to flee the still-active volcano.

Spain says it has proof that the treasure—retrieved by a Florida salvage company from a secret location last year—is from a warship that sank in 1804.

Among the unusual finds are a possible victim of human sacrifice and a skeleton with curiously curved bones, anthropologists report.

Buddhist monks and Myanmar (Burma) government workers began cleaning the cyclone-struck city of Yangon (Rangoon). But the situation remains grim in the country's delta region. Warning: graphic imagery.

Watch young chimpanzees beat Japanese college students in a short-term-memory test by a wide margin—raising questions about primate intelligence and evolution.

The massive burial site contains a treasure trove of artifacts and information about two little-known South American civilizations, experts said.

See a supercell light up the Texas sky, U.S. Marines braving a sandstorm in Afghanistan, the Olympic torch reach the top of Mount Everest, and more.

People living in the earliest known settlement in the Americas relied partly on seaweed, bolstering the theory that the New World was settled via a coastal route, a new study says.

The grassy prehistoric Sahara turned to desert more slowly than previously thought, a new report says—and some say global warming may turn the desert green once again.

See how Cyclone Nargis changed the landscape of the Irrawaddy River delta, where massive floods killed tens of thousands.