National Geographic November 2016

The Power of Eight

Octopuses appear as alien as any extraterrestrial, yet seem strangely akin to humans.

The Race to the Red Planet

Humankind’s next big mission is Mars. But how long until we get there?

{ Special Poster } Colonizing Mars

Changing Cuba: Here Comes the Wave

A warming relationship with the United States has an upbeat but wary Cuba bracing for an onslaught of tourists from its Cold War adversary.

Changing Cuba: The Caribbean’s Crown Jewels

Gardens of the Queen, Cuba’s sprawling marine preserve, is an oceanic Eden in tourism’s path.

Fragile Peace

Sri Lanka is beginning to reckon with the aftermath of a brutal civil war: tens of thousands homeless, tens of thousands still missing.

Proof | Consecrated in Mexico

Behind convent walls, cloistered nuns pray, work – and even play volleyball.