List of National Geographic cover stories (2010s)
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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 2010s National Geographic's cover stories showcased global historical events such as the American Civil War[4] and humanities treks to Mars.[5] Cover stories included articles written by notable writers such as Tina Rosenberg,[6] Charles C. Mann[7] and Robert Draper.[8] Cover photos were published by notable photographers such as Martin Schoeller,[9] Aaron Huey[10] and Stephanie Sinclair.[11]
The 2010s saw articles written and photographed at locations around the globe featuring wildlife like the January 2018 issue titled "Why Birds Matter", written by Jonathan Franzen with a photo on the cover of a Secretarybird, photographed by Joel Sartore.[12] Articles featured on the cover of the magazine also included human-interest stories such as "Last Tribes of the Amazon", written by Scott Wallace and Chris Fagon with photography by Charlie Hamilton James featuring a child of an Amazon tribe in the October 2018 issue.[13] Many geographical locations were featured including western South America in the April 2011 article "The Genius of the Inca", written by Heather Pringle with photographs by Dylan Cole.[14]
| Titlea | Date | Author | Photographer | Imagesb | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merging Man and Machine | January 2010 | Josh Fischman | Mark Thiessen | Robotic hand | |
| Polygamy in America | February 2010 | Scott Anderson | Stephanie Sinclair | Polygamist family | |
| Wolf Wars | March 2010 | Douglas H. Chadwick | Jess Lee | Howling grey wolf | |
| Water: Our Thirsty World | April 2010 | Barbara Kingsolver | Marc Thiessen | Water droplets | |
| Mount St. Helens | May 2010 | Mckenzie Funk | Roger Werth | Eruption Mount St. Helens | |
| Greenland: Ground Zero for Global Warming | June 2010 | Mark Jenkins | Photographer | Peter Essick | |
| 400 Million Year Old Woman | July 2010 | Jamie Shreeve | Tim D. White | Ardipithecus ramidus skull | |
| Bahamas Blue Holes | August 2010 | Andrew Todhunter | Wesley C. Skiles | Cave in The Bahamas | |
| King Tut's DNA | September 2010 | Zahi Hawass | Kenneth Garrett | King Tut's burial mask | |
| The Spill | October 2010 | Joel K. Bourne Jr. | Joel Sartore | Oiled brown pelican | |
| Mysteries of Great Migrations | November 2010 | David Quammen | Chris Johns | Wildebeests | |
| The Search for King David | December 2010 | Robert Draper | Norton Simon Foundation | David Slaying Goliath |
2011
| Titlea | Date | Author | Photographer | Imagesb | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population 7 Billion | January 2011 | Robert Kunzig | Peter Bialobrzeski | Urban landscape | |
| Under Paris | February 2011 | Neil Shea | Fernand Ivaldi | Eiffel Tower | |
| Designing the Perfect Pet | March 2011 | Evan Ratliff | Greg Schneider | Red fox | |
| The Genius of the Inca | April 2011 | Heather Pringle | Dylan Cole | Inca Lost City | |
| Above Yosemite | May 2011 | Mark Jenkins | Jimmy Chin | Half Dome | |
| The Birth of Religion | June 2011 | Charles C. Mann | Vincent J. Musi | Göbekli Tepe | |
| Cleopatra | July 2011 | Chip Brown | Sam Weber | Cleopatra stand-in | |
| The Wildest Place in North America | August 2011 | Bruce Barcott | Paul Nicklen | Kermode bear | |
| Can We Fly | September 2011 | Nancy Shute | Alain Emoult | Yves Rossy | |
| The New Science of the Teenage Brain | October 2011 | David Dobbs | Sam Hundley | Watercolor Silhouette | |
| England's Medieval Mystery | November 2011 | Caroline Alexander | Daniel Dociu | Medieval Warrior | |
| The King James Bible | December 2011 | Adam Nicolson | Jim Richardson | King James Version |
2012
| Titlea | Date | Author | Photographer | Imagesb | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twins | January 2012 | Peter Miller | Martin Schoeller | Twin children | |
| What Dogs Tell Us | February 2012 | Evan Ratliff | William Wegman | Weimaraner | |
| The Journey of the Apostles | March 2012 | Andrew Todhunter | Leonardo da Vinci | The Last Supper | |
| Titanic | April 2012 | Hampton Sides | Nick Kaloterakis | Titanic | |
| Eyewitness to the Civil War | May 2012 | Harry Katz | Rebecca Hale | American Civil War portraits | |
| Solar Super Storms | June 2012 | Timothy Ferris | NASA | Sun | |
| Easter Island | July 2012 | Hannah Bloch | Fernando G. Baptista | Easter Island statue | |
| In the Spirit of Crazy Horse | August 2012 | Alexandra Fuller | Aaron Huey | Oglala Lakota Horserace | |
| What's Up with the Weather | September 2012 | Peter Miller | Mike Hollingshead | Tornado | |
| Blood Ivory: 25,000 Elephants Were Killed Last Year | October 2012 | Bryan Christy | Ivory tusks | ||
| Cuba | November 2012 | Cynthia Gorney | |||
| The World's Largest Trees | December 2012 | David Quammen | Michael Nichols | California Redwoods |
2013
| Titlea | Date | Author | Photographer | Imagesb | Ref |
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| Unseen Libya | February 2013 | Robert Draper | George Steinmetz | Temple of Zeus, Olympia | |
| America Strikes Oil | March 2013 | David Quammen | Eugene Richards | Oil rig fire | |
| Reviving Extinct Species | April 2013 | Carl Zimmer | Jon Foster | Woolly mammoth | |
| This Baby Will Live to Be 120* | May 2013 | Stephen S. Hall | Robert Clark | Infant | |
| The New Explorers | June 2013 | Peter Gwin | Marco Grob | James Cameron | |
| Our Wild Wild Solar System | July 2013 | Robert Irion | Dana Berry | Planets colliding | |
| Sugar: Why We Can't Resist It | August 2013 | David Quammen | Robert Clark | Cupcake | |
| Rising Seas | September 2013 | Tim Folger | Nick Kaloterakis | Statue of Liberty | |
| The Photography Issue | October 2013 | Robert Draper | Steve McCurry, et al.e | Sharbat Gula. et al.f | |
| The Monster Storm | November 2013 | Robert Draper | Carsten Peter | ||
| Our Greatest Journey | December 2013 | Paul Salopek | John Stanmeyer |
2014
| Titlea | Date | Author | Photographer | Imagesb | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defenders of the Amazon | January 2014 | Chip Brown | Martin Schoeller | Kayapo girl | |
| The New Science of the Brain | February 2014 | Carl Zimmer |
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Fibers inside the brain | |
| The Truth About Black Holes | March 2014 | Michael Finkel | Mark A. Garlick | Black hole | |
| Wild Pets | April 2014 | Lauren Slater | Vincent J. Musi | Hedgehog | |
| The New Food Revolution | May 2014 | Johnathan Foley | Nick Kaloterais | Earth | |
| Hero Dogs | June 2014 | Michael Paterniti | Martin Schoeller | Belgian Malinois | |
| Is Anybody Out There? | July 2014 | Michael Lemonick | Dana Berry | Europa (moon) | |
| The First Stonehenge | August 2014 | Roff Smith | Jim Richardson | Stones of Stenness | |
| Rome's Bad Boy | September 2014 | Robert Draper | Sam Weber | Nero | |
| Move Over T.Rex! | October 2014 | Tom Mueller | Mike Hettwer | Spinosaurus | |
| Real Zombies | November 2014 | Carl Zimmer | Anand Varma | ||
| The Joy of Food | December 2014 | Staff writerk | Joel Sartore | Red apple |
2015
| Titlea | Date | Author | Photographer | Imagesb | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The First American | January 2015 | Glen Hodges | Tomer Hanuka | 12,000 year old teenager | |
| Healing Our Soldiers | February 2015 | Caroline Alexander | Lynn Johnson | USMC soldier | |
| The War on Science | March 2015 | Joel Achenbach | Richard Barnes | Fake photo set of Moon landing | |
| Lincoln | April 2015 | Adam Goodheart | Library of Congress | Abraham Lincoln | |
| Thinking Like a Dolphin | May 2015 | Joshua Foer | Brian Skerry | Bottlenose dolphin | |
| Weed: The New Science of Marijuana | June 2015 | Hampton Sides | Bill Marr | Marijuana plant | |
| Destination Pluto | July 2015 | Nadia Drake | Dana Berry | Pluto | |
| Pope Francis | August 2015 | Robert Draper | Dave Yoder | Pope Francis | |
| Ivory | September 2015 | Bryan Christy | Rebecca Hale | Ivory tusk | |
| Almost Human | October 2015 | Jamie Shreeve | Robert Clark | Homo naledi | |
| Cool it. | November 2015 | Peter Miller | Robert Simmon | Earth | |
| Mary | December 2015 | Maureen Orth | Diana Markosian | Madonna (art) |
2016
| Titlea | Date | Author | Photographer | Imagesb | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Power of Parks | January 2016 | David Quammen | Stephen Wilkes | Yosemite | |
| Under London | February 2016 | Roff Smith | Imagery Forces | London artifacts | |
| Eat Me | March 2016 | Elizabeth Royte | Hans Gissinger | Vegetables | |
| The Photo Ark | April 2016 | Rachel Hartigan Shea | Joel Sartore | Giant panda | |
| Yellowstone | May 2016 | David Quammen | Jordan Metcalfe | Yellowstone | |
| Tomb Raiders | June 2016 | Tom Mueller | Kenneth Garrett | King Tut mask | |
| The Real CSI | July 2016 | Veronique Greenwood | ar-chi (Getty Images) | Thumbprint | |
| The DNA Revolution | August 2016 | Michael Specter | Bose Collins | DNA strand | |
| The End of Blindness | September 2016 | David Dobbs | David Littsschwager | Human eye | |
| Back to Nature | October 2016 | Timothy Egan | Corey Arnold | Photo | |
| Race to the Red Planet | November 2016 | Joel Achenbach | ISRO | Mars | |
| The Healing Power of Faith | December 2016 | Erik Vance | Leemage/Corbis | St. Catherine of Siena by Il Sodoma |
2017
| Titlea | Date | Author | Photographer | Imagesb | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender Revolution | January 2017 | Tina Rosenberg | Robin Hammond | Transgender girl | |
| Saving Our Oceans | February 2017 | Cynthia Barnett | Brian Skerry | California sea lion | |
| Vikings | March 2017 | Heather Pringle | Fernando G.Baptista | Viking | |
| The Next Human | April 2017 | T.D. Max | Owen Freeman | Past, present, future Humans | |
| What is Genius | May 2017 | Claudia Clab | Tomer Hanuka | Albert Einstein | |
| Why We Lie | June 2017 | Yudhijit Bhattacharjee | Staff Photographeri | Polygraph readout | |
| Secret Antarctica | July 2017 | Laurent Ballesta | Laurent Ballesta | Scuba diver under ice | |
| The Space Issue | August 2017 | Multiple authorsj | NASA | Crab Nebula | |
| The Science of Addiction | September 2017 | Fran Smith | Max Aguilera-Hellweg | Human brain | |
| The Making of an Icon: Becoming Jane | October 2017 | Tony Gerber | Hugo van Lawick | Jane Goodall | |
| The Search for Happiness | November 2017 | Dan Buettner | James Kaiser | Waterfall in Costa Rica | |
| The Real Jesus | December 2017 | Kristin Romey | Bridgeman Images | Head of Christ (Rembrandt) |
2018
| Titlea | Date | Author | Photographer | Imagesb | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Why Birds Matter | January 2018 | Jonathan Franzen | Joel Sartore | Secretarybird | |
| The New Big Brother | February 2018 | Robert Draper | Nick Kaloterakis | Satellite | |
| Through An Astronaut's Eyes | March 2018 | Nadia Drake | Dan Winters | Peggy Whitson | |
| Black and White | April 2018 | Patricia Edmonds | Robin Hammond | Twins | |
| Artist, Provocateur, Rouge, Genius, Picasso. | May 2018 | Leila Fadel | Pablo Picasso | Picasso Self-portrait | |
| Planet or Plastic? | June 2018 | Laura Parker | Jorge Gamboa | Iceberg | |
| Building a Better Athlete | July 2018 | Christine Brennan | John Huet | Katie Ledecky | |
| The Science of Sleep | August 2018 | Michael Finkel | Magnus Wennman | Child sleeping | |
| The Story of a Face | September 2018 | Joanna Connors | Maggie Steber | Face transplant recipient | |
| Last Tribes of the Amazon | October 2018 |
|
Charlie Hamilton James | Child of an Amazon tribe | |
| Battle for the American West | November 2018 | Hannah Nordhaus | Aaron Huey | Cowboy on horseback | |
| The Search for Sacred Text | December 2018 | Robert Draper | Paolo Veronese | Torah scroll |
2019
| Titlea | Date | Author | Photographer | Imagesb | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Future of Medicine | January 2019 | Fran Smith | Craig Cutler | Hand with Microchip | |
| The Ultimate Climb | February 2019 | Mark Synnott | Mickey Schaefer | Alex Honnold climbing El Capitan | |
| Are We Alone | March 2019 | Jamie Shreeve |
|
MeerKAT viewing Milky Way | |
| Cities | April 2019 | Neil Shea | Vincent Laforet | Sydney Harbour Bridge | |
| Leonardo | May 2019 | Claudia Kalb | Riccardo Vecchio | Leonardo da Vinci | |
| The Hidden Cost of Wildlife Tourism | June 2019 | Natasha Daly | Kristen Luce | Caged sloth | |
| Beyond the Moon: A New Era of Space Travel is Here | July 2019 | Multiple authorsj | William Anders | Earthrise | |
| World on the Move | August 2019 | Paul Salopek | K M Asad | Rohingya Refugee | |
| The Arctic is Heating Up | September 2019 | Shea | NSIDC | Earth | |
| Last of Its Kind | October 2019 | Elizabeth Kolbert | Ami Vitale | Sudan (rhinoceros) | |
| Women: A Century of Change | November 2019 | Multiple authorsj | Multiplej | Photo | |
| Under Jerusalem | December 2019 | Andrew Lawler | Bose Collins | Jerusalem |