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National Geographic Magazine - UK

Dec 01 2021
Magazine

What's inside the yellow box? Amazing discoveries and experiences await you in every issue of National Geographic magazine.

GETTING TO KNOW EARTH ANEW

WELCOME TO EARTH

PATTERN • SPIRALS. STRIPES. SYMMETRIES. THROUGHOUT NATURE, PATTERNS HELP ANIMALS BLEND IN OR STAND OUT.

A PHOTO ARK FULL OF PATTERNS

FINDING MUSIC IN VIBRATIONS OF SPIDERWEB STRANDS • DON’T JUST GIVE THESE PAGES A LOOK—GIVE THEM A LISTEN. USE YOUR PHONE’S CAMERA TO SCAN THE QR CODE WITH EACH ARTICLE TO HEAR THE SOUNDS IT DESCRIBES.

SNAKE USES ITS RATTLE SPEED TO FOOL FOES

WHAT’S A SONGBIRD WITHOUT ITS SONG? • A SPECIES’ SURVIVAL MAY REST ON ELDERS TEACHING YOUNG MALES MATING CALLS.

NOTING THE CALLS OF THE WILD

WHALE SONGS ACT AS AN ULTRASOUND OF SEAFLOOR • LONG REGARDED AS INTERF ERENCE ON QUAKE RECORDINGS, CETACEAN CALLS COULD HELP MAP THE EARTH’ SCRUST.

THE SOUNDS OF HUMANITY

A PHOTOGRAPHER’S LONG, AMAZING DAY WITH A VOLCANO • Stephen Wilkes documented an eruption in Iceland for 21 hours straight, making images of the fiery scene as day turned to night.

COLOR • VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS CREATE A CANVAS FOR LIFE IN EVERY HUE, FROM TINY MICROBES TO TOWERING TREES.

SMELL • THIS TREE LAST BLOOMED ON A HAWAIIAN SLOPE MORE THAN A CENTURY AGO. NOW SCIENTISTS HAVE RESURRECTED ITS EXTINCT FRAGRANCE. TAKE A WHIFF!

SPEED • SINCE 2000 THE WORLD’S GLACIERS HAVE SHED MORE THAN 5.3 TRILLION METRIC TONS OF WATER, REMAKING LANDSCAPES AND RAISING SEA LEVELS.

SWARM • THE SERENGETI MIGRATION IS ONE OF EARTH’S GREAT SPECTACLES, VITAL TO LIFE IN A LAND OF AMAZING VISTAS AND VIBRANT CULTURES.

AN INTRICATE WEB OF LIFE

THE UNLIKELY KING • THE SERENGETI’S MOST IMPORTANT ANIMAL IS THE WILDEBEEST, AN AWKWARD-LOOKING ANTELOPE WHOSE AGE-OLD MIGRATION DRIVES A COMPLEX CIRCLE OF LIFE.

WAYS OF THE WILDEBEEST • Driven by a constant search for food, 1.3 million wildebeests chase the rains across the greater Serengeti ecosystem every year. The migration stretches from the fertile short-grass plains of the southeast to the woodlands and savanna of the north when rainfall gets scarce.

A POPULATION SURGE

NUMBERS LEVEL OFF

HUMAN IMPACTS ON THE HERDS

GUARDIANS OF THE LAND

THE SPIRITUAL VOICE OF THE FOREST • THE LOITA FOREST IS THE HIDDEN SERENGETI, A PRISTINE WILDERNESS SACRED TO THE MAASAI. THE FOREST’S OCTOGENARIAN PROTECTOR SEES A MYSTICAL LANDSCAPE INCREASINGLY THREATENED BY GREED.

A FIGHT TO SURVIVE

THE FRESH EXPLORER • ARMED WITH HIS GRANDMOTHER’S GUIDANCE ABOUT FACING FEARS, ACTOR WILL SMITH TREKKED TO EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS.

WHAT’S COMING


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What's inside the yellow box? Amazing discoveries and experiences await you in every issue of National Geographic magazine.

GETTING TO KNOW EARTH ANEW

WELCOME TO EARTH

PATTERN • SPIRALS. STRIPES. SYMMETRIES. THROUGHOUT NATURE, PATTERNS HELP ANIMALS BLEND IN OR STAND OUT.

A PHOTO ARK FULL OF PATTERNS

FINDING MUSIC IN VIBRATIONS OF SPIDERWEB STRANDS • DON’T JUST GIVE THESE PAGES A LOOK—GIVE THEM A LISTEN. USE YOUR PHONE’S CAMERA TO SCAN THE QR CODE WITH EACH ARTICLE TO HEAR THE SOUNDS IT DESCRIBES.

SNAKE USES ITS RATTLE SPEED TO FOOL FOES

WHAT’S A SONGBIRD WITHOUT ITS SONG? • A SPECIES’ SURVIVAL MAY REST ON ELDERS TEACHING YOUNG MALES MATING CALLS.

NOTING THE CALLS OF THE WILD

WHALE SONGS ACT AS AN ULTRASOUND OF SEAFLOOR • LONG REGARDED AS INTERF ERENCE ON QUAKE RECORDINGS, CETACEAN CALLS COULD HELP MAP THE EARTH’ SCRUST.

THE SOUNDS OF HUMANITY

A PHOTOGRAPHER’S LONG, AMAZING DAY WITH A VOLCANO • Stephen Wilkes documented an eruption in Iceland for 21 hours straight, making images of the fiery scene as day turned to night.

COLOR • VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS CREATE A CANVAS FOR LIFE IN EVERY HUE, FROM TINY MICROBES TO TOWERING TREES.

SMELL • THIS TREE LAST BLOOMED ON A HAWAIIAN SLOPE MORE THAN A CENTURY AGO. NOW SCIENTISTS HAVE RESURRECTED ITS EXTINCT FRAGRANCE. TAKE A WHIFF!

SPEED • SINCE 2000 THE WORLD’S GLACIERS HAVE SHED MORE THAN 5.3 TRILLION METRIC TONS OF WATER, REMAKING LANDSCAPES AND RAISING SEA LEVELS.

SWARM • THE SERENGETI MIGRATION IS ONE OF EARTH’S GREAT SPECTACLES, VITAL TO LIFE IN A LAND OF AMAZING VISTAS AND VIBRANT CULTURES.

AN INTRICATE WEB OF LIFE

THE UNLIKELY KING • THE SERENGETI’S MOST IMPORTANT ANIMAL IS THE WILDEBEEST, AN AWKWARD-LOOKING ANTELOPE WHOSE AGE-OLD MIGRATION DRIVES A COMPLEX CIRCLE OF LIFE.

WAYS OF THE WILDEBEEST • Driven by a constant search for food, 1.3 million wildebeests chase the rains across the greater Serengeti ecosystem every year. The migration stretches from the fertile short-grass plains of the southeast to the woodlands and savanna of the north when rainfall gets scarce.

A POPULATION SURGE

NUMBERS LEVEL OFF

HUMAN IMPACTS ON THE HERDS

GUARDIANS OF THE LAND

THE SPIRITUAL VOICE OF THE FOREST • THE LOITA FOREST IS THE HIDDEN SERENGETI, A PRISTINE WILDERNESS SACRED TO THE MAASAI. THE FOREST’S OCTOGENARIAN PROTECTOR SEES A MYSTICAL LANDSCAPE INCREASINGLY THREATENED BY GREED.

A FIGHT TO SURVIVE

THE FRESH EXPLORER • ARMED WITH HIS GRANDMOTHER’S GUIDANCE ABOUT FACING FEARS, ACTOR WILL SMITH TREKKED TO EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS.

WHAT’S COMING


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