List of National Geographic cover stories (1990s)

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National Geographic is an American magazine that is noted for its cover stories and accompanying photography.^[1]^[2]^[3] Throughout the 1990s National Geographic's cover stories showcased global historical events such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill.^[4] Cover stories included articles written by notable writers such as Joel Swerdlow,^[5] Paul Theroux^[6] and Paul F. Salopek.^[7] Cover photos were published by notable photographers such as David Doubilet,^[8] James Nachtwey^[9] and Frans Lanting.^[10]

The 1990s saw articles written and photographed at locations around the globe featuring marine life like the February 1994 issue titled "Sea Turtles: In a Race for Survival", written by Anne and Jack Rudloe with a photo on the cover of a Sea turtle, photographed by Bill Curtsinger.^[11] Articles featured on the cover of the magazine also included human-interest stories such as "1491: America Before Columbus", photographed by Jack Unruh featuring the Iroquois Native Americans in the October 1991 issue.^[12] Many geographical locations were featured including Petra, an archaeological city in Jordan, in the December 1998 article "Petra: Ancient City of Stone", written by Don Belt with photographs by Annie Griffiths.^[13]

In the August 1991 issue, Thomas Y. Canby wrote the cover story titled "The Persian Gulf: After the Storm", writing about the Kuwaiti oil fires after the Persian Gulf War. The photo on the cover of the magazine featured a picture of oil fields on fire, photographed by Steve McCurry.^[14]

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Title^a	Date	Author	Photographer	Images^b	Ref
Alaska's Big Spill	January 1990	Bryan Hodgson	Natalie Fobes	Oil spill covering a guillemot	^[4]
Between Monterey Tides	February 1990	Rick Gore	David Doubilet	Harbor seal	^[8]
Siberia in from the Cold	March 1990	Mike Edwards	Steve Raymer	Nenet woman chopping wood	^[15]
A Personal Vision of Vanishing Life	April 1990	Staff writer^c	James Balog	Orangutan	^[16]
Growing up in East Harlem	May 1990	Jere Van Dyk	Joseph Rodriguez	East Harlem resident	^[17]
Austin	June 1990	Elizabeth A. Moize	Michael O'Brien	Austin teenage prom dates	^[18]
Florida Watershed	July 1990	Nicole Duplaix	Farrell Grehan	Great egret	^[19]
Yugoslavia: A House Much Divided	August 1990	Kenneth C. Danforth	Steve McCurry	Albanian family	^[20]
Track of the Manila Galleons	September 1990	Eugene Lyons	Sisse Brimberg	Chinese girl in a dress	^[21]
Suruga Bay: In the Shadow of Mount Fuji	October 1990	David Doubilet	David Doubilet	Lionfish	^[22]
The Baltic Nations	November 1990	Priit Vesilind	Larry C. Price	cleaner on Statue of Stalin	^[23]
Botswana	December 1990	Frans Lanting	Frans Lanting	Hippopotamus	^[24]

Title^a	Date	Author	Photographer	Images^b	Ref
Northwest Australia: The Land & the Sea	January 1991	Harvey Arden	Sam Abell	Australian rancher family	^[25]
Hong Kong: Countdown to 1997	February 1991	Ross Terrill	Jodi Cobb	Child in refugee camp	^[26]
Lechuguilla Cave	March 1991	Tim Cahill	Michael Nichols	Lechuguilla Cave	^[27]
A Season in the Minors	April 1991	David Lamb	William Albert Allard	El Paso Diablos	^[28]
Elephants: Out of Time, Out of Space	May 1991	Douglas H. Chadwick	Frans Lanting	Elephant	^[29]
East Europe's Dark Dawn	June 1991	Jon Thompson	James Nachtwey	Romanian boys	^[9]
The Wyeth Family	July 1991	Richard Meryman	N. C. Wyeth	Treasure Island cover	^[30]
The Persian Gulf: After the Storm	August 1991	Thomas Y. Canby	Steve McCurry	Kuwaiti oil fires	^[14]
A Shameful Harvest	September 1991	Constance J. Poten	José Azel	Red fox pups	^[31]
1491: America Before Columbus	October 1991	Not stated^d	Jack Unruh	Iroquois leader	^[12]
Zaire River	November 1991	Robert Caputo	Robert Caputo	Young Zaire fisherman	^[32]
Ibn Battuta: Prince of Travelers	December 1991	Thomas A. Abercrombie	James L. Stanfield	Veiled Islamic woman	^[33]

Title^a	Date	Author	Photographer	Images^b	Ref
Search for Columbus	January 1992	Eugene Lyon	Bob Sacha	Niña Pinta Santa María	^[34]
Bittersweet Success: Eastern Wildlife	February 1992	James Conaway	Raymond Gehman	Geese World Trade Center	^[35]
A Curious Kinship: Apes and Humans	March 1992	Eugene Linden	Michael Nichols	Frodo (Chimpanzee)	^[36]
Good Luck City: Vancouver	April 1992	Andrew Ward	Annie Griffiths Belt	Beluga whale in aquarium	^[37]
India's Wildlife Dilemma	May 1992	Geoffrey C. Ward	Raghu Rai	Tiger	^[38]
Russia's Baikal: The World's Great Lake	June 1992	Don Belt	Sarah Leen	Russian child sledding on Lake Baikal	^[39]
Mountain Lions	July 1992	Maurice G. Hornocker	Jim Dutcher	Mountain Lion cub	^[40]
Struggle of the Kurds	August 1992	Christopher Hitchens	Ed Kashi	Kurd woman	^[41]
Dolphins in Crisis	September 1992	Kenneth S. Norris	Flip Nicklin	Spotted dolphins	^[42]
Our Disappearing Wetlands	October 1992	John G. Mitchell	Mark Wilson	American bullfrog	^[43]
The Sense of Sight	November 1992	Michael E. Long	Joe McNally	Human eye	^[44]
Crucibles of Creation: Volcanoes	December 1992	Noel Grove	Roger Ressmeyer	Kīlauea volcano	^[45]

Title^a	Date	Author	Photographer	Images^b	Ref
Dinosaurs	January 1993	Rick Gore	John Gurche	Saurolophus	^[46]
Newborn Panda in the Wild	February 1993	Lu Zhi	Lu Zhi	Giant panda cub	^[47]
A Broken Empire	March 1993	Mike Edwards	Gerd Ludwig	Stalin statue blindfolded	^[48]
Andrew Aftermath	April 1993	Rick Gore	Joel Sartore	Hurricane Andrew soldier with boy	^[49]
Middle East Water: Critical Resource	May 1993	Priit J. Vesilind	Ed Kashi	Egyptian woman drinking in Nile	^[50]
Hanging in the Balance: Chesapeake Bay	June 1993	Tom Horton	Robert W. Madden	Chesapeake Bay boy leaping on dock	^[51]
Lightning: Natures High Voltage Spectacle	July 1993	William R. Newcott	Thomas Ives	Lightning	^[52]
Tragedy Strikes the Horn of Africa	August 1993	Robert Caputo	Robert Caputo	Somali woman with pale	^[53]
India's Rabari	September 1993	Robyn Davidson	Dilip Mehta	Indian child with camel	^[54]
Labrador	October 1993	Robert M. Poole	Richard Olsenius	Canadian boy smiling	^[55]
The Red Sea	November 1993	David Doubilet	David Doubilet	Emperor angelfish	^[56]
Glass: Capturing the Dance of Light	December 1993	William S. Ellis	James L. Amos	Glass with gold sparkles	^[57]

Title^a	Date	Author	Photographer	Images^b	Ref
Macaws	January 1994	Charles A. Munn	Frans Lanting	Macaw bird eating fruit	^[10]
Sea Turtles: In a Race for Survival	February 1994	Anne and Jack Rudloe	Bill Curtsinger	Sea turtle swimming	^[11]
Shanghai	March 1994	William S. Ellis	Stuart Franklin	Shanghai bicyclists	^[58]
The Everglades: Dying for Help	April 1994	Alan Mairson	Chris Johns	Newborn alligators	^[59]
Turkey	May 1994	Thomas B. Allen	Reza	Turkish woman dancing	^[60]
Powwow	June 1994	Michael Parfit	David Alan Harvey	Native American family	^[61]
Recycling	July 1994	Noel Grove	Jose Azel	Recycling mill with worker	^[62]
Lions of Darkness	August 1994	Dereck Joubert	Beverly Joubert	Lion with killed Zebra	^[63]
Ireland	September 1994	Richard Conniff	Sam Abell	Irish children with horse	^[64]
Our National Parks	October 1994	John G. Mitchell	Kurt E. Smith	Mount Rainier National Park	^[65]
Buffalo: Back Home on the Range	November 1994	Bryan Hodgson	Sarah Leen	Bisons at Yellowstone	^[66]
Animals at Play	December 1994	Stuart L. Brown	Mitsuaki Iwagō	Japanese macaque	^[67]

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Title^a	Date	Author	Photographer	Images^b	Ref
Grey Reef Sharks	January 1995	Bill Curtsinger	Bill Curtsinger	Grey reef shark	^[68]
Maya Masterpiece Revealed at Bonampak	February 1995	Mary Miller	Doug Stern Enrico Feroelli	Maya art	^[69]
Dead or Alive: The Endangered Species Act	March 1995	Douglas H. Chadwick	Joel Sartore	Red wolf pup in net	^[70]
The New Saigon	April 1995	Tracy Dahlby	Karen Kasmauski	Vietnamese bride to be	^[71]
The Vimy Flies Again	May 1995	Peter McMillan	James L. Stanfield	Biplane Taj Mahal	^[72]
Quiet Miracles of the Brain	June 1995	Joel Swerdlow	Joe McNally	Human brain	^[73]
Ndoki: Last Place on Earth	July 1995	Douglas Chadwick	Michael Nichols	African forest elephant	^[74]
Sicily	August 1995	Jane Vessels	Robert Albert Ward	Sicilian actress	^[75]
Hawaii's Vanishing Species	September 1995	Elizabeth Royte	Chis Johns	ʻIʻiwi bird	^[76]
Threatened by War	October 1995	Paul F. Salopek	Michael Nichols	Mountain gorilla	^[7]
Diminishing Returns	November 1995	Michael Parfit	Robb Kendrick	Skipjack tuna	^[77]
Jane Goodall	December 1995	Peter Miller	Michael Nichols	Jane Goodall Gregoire	^[78]

Title^a	Date	Author	Photographer	Images^b	Ref
Neandertals	January 1996	Rick Gore	Kenneth Garrett	Neandertal skull	^[79]
Into the Heart of Glaciers	February 1996	Not stated^c	Carsten Peter	Greenland glacier	^[80]
Emperors of the Ice	March 1996	Glen Oeland	Frans Lanting	Emperor penguins	^[81]
Storming the Tower	April 1996	Alan Mairson	Bill Hatcher	Mountaineer Trango Tower	^[82]
Dinosaur Eggs	May 1996	Philip J. Currie	Louie Psihoyos	Dinosaur egg	^[83]
Australia's Cape York Peninsula	June 1996	Cathy Newman	Sam Abell	Aboriginal Australian	^[84]
A Place for Parks in the New South Africa	July 1996	Douglas H. Chadwick	Chris Johns	Mother Leopard and cub	^[85]
Emerging Mexico	August 1996	Not stated^c	Tomasz Tomaszewski	Mexican worshipers	^[86]
Hawk High Over Four Corners	September 1996	T. H. Watkins	Adriel Heisey	Monument Valley	^[87]
African Gold	October 1996	Carol Beckwith Angela Fisher	Carol Beckwith	African woman wearing Jewellery	^[88]
The Astronomer's' View of Home: Orbit	November 1996	Jay Apt	NASA	Space Shuttle Discovery Earth	^[89]
Genghis Khan	December 1996	Mike Edwards	James L. Stanfield	Bronze Plaque of Genghis Khan	^[90]

Title^a	Date	Author	Photographer	Images^b	Ref
Beneath the Tasman Sea	January 1997	David Doubilet	David Doubilet	Sawshark	^[91]
Siberian Tigers	February 1997	Mike Edwards	Mark Moritsch	Siberian tiger	^[92]
Bearded Seals	March 1997	Kit Kovacs	Flip Nicklin	Bearded seal	^[93]
Hubble's Eye on the Universe	April 1997	William R. Newcott	Raghvendra Sahai John Trauger	Dying sun	^[94]
India Turning Fifty	May 1997	Geoffrey C. Ward	Steve McCurry	Indian woman	^[95]
French Polynesia	June 1997	Peter Benchley	David Doubilet	Tahitian woman	^[96]
Robot Revolution	July 1997	Curt Suplee	George Steinman	Robot	^[97]
Malaysia's Secret Realm	August 1997	Mattias Klum	Mattias Klum	Silvered leaf monkey	^[98]
China's Three Gorges	September 1997	Arthur Zich	Bob Sacha	Chinese boatman	^[99]
Zambezi	October 1997	Paul Theroux	Chris Johns	Luvale children drumming	^[6]
North Woods Journal	November 1997	Jim Brandenburg	Jim Brandenburg	Mallard ducks	^[100]
Wild Tigers	December 1997	Geoffrey C. Ward	Michael Nichols	Tigress and her cub	^[101]

Title^a	Date	Author	Photographer	Images^b	Ref
Making Sense of the Millennium	January 1998	Joel Swerdlow	George Steinmetz	Sahara Desert	^[5]
Queen Maud Land	February 1998	Jon Krakauer	Gordon Wiltsie	Kubus Mountain	^[102]
Planet of the Beatles	March 1998	Douglas H. Chadwick	Mark W. Moffett	Longhorn beetle	^[103]
The Vanishing Prairie dog	April 1998	Michael E. Long	Raymound Gehman	Prairie dog	^[104]
Unlocking the Climate Puzzle	May 1998	Curt Suplee	Joanna B. Pinneo	Tuareg family in the shade	^[105]
Trans-Siberian Railroad	June 1998	Fen Montaigne	Gerd Ludwig	Russian man	^[106]
Dinosaurs Take Wings	July 1998	Jennifer Ackerman	O. Louis Mazzatenta	Feathered dinosaur	^[107]
Return to Mars	August 1998	William R. Newcott	NASA	Sojourner (rover)	^[108]
Valley of the Kings	September 1998	Kent R. Weeks	Kenneth Garrett	King Tut Alabaster	^[109]
Population	October 1998	Joel L. Swerdlow	Karen Kasmauski	Bangladesh mother and child	^[110]
Maui's Monster Waves: Jaws	November 1998	Joel Achenbach	Patrick McFeeley	Laird Hamilton surfing	^[111]
Petra: Ancient City of Stone	December 1998	Don Belt	Annie Griffiths Belt	Petra	^[13]

Title^a	Date	Author	Photographer	Images^b	Ref
Coral Eden	January 1999	David Doubilet	David Doubilet	Goby Giant clam	^[112]
Biodiversity: The Fragile Web	February 1999	Joel L. Swerdlow	Frans Lanting	Australian Spadefoot frog	^[113]
El Niño/La Niña	March 1999	Curt Suplee	NASA	Hurricane Linda	^[114]
Return to the Battle of Midway	April 1999	Thomas B. Allen	David Doubilet	World War II planes	^[115]
Africa's Wild Dogs	May 1999	Richard Conniff	Chris Johns	African wild dogs	^[116]
Cuba	June 1999	John J. Putman	Alan Harvey	Cuban boy in car	^[117]
Iran: Testing the Waters of Reform	July 1999	Fen Montaigne	Alexandra Avakian	Iranian woman	^[118]
Global Culture	August 1999	Joel L. Swerdlow	Joe McNally	Fashion Model and her mother in India	^[119]
Around at Last	September 1999	Bertrand Piccard	Breitling SA	Breitling Orbiter 3	^[120]
Secrets of the Gene	October 1999	James Shreeve	Karen Kasmauski	Genetically engineered pig	^[121]
Inca Sacrifice	November 1999	Johan Reinhard	Maria Stenzel	Inca gold figurine	^[122]
Cheetahs	December 1999	Richard Conniff	Chris Johns	Cheetah and her cub	^[123]

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