List of National Geographic cover stories (2020s)
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This is a list of National Geographic cover stories including writers and photographers starting from January 2020.
For a complete list of cover stories from 1959 to 2025, see the List of National Geographic cover stories.
| Titlea | Date | Author | Photographer | Imagesb | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pain | January 2020 | Robert Clark, et al. | Magic Torch | Human brain | |
| Last Journey into Slavery | February 2020 | Joel K. Bourne, Jr., et al. | Kadir Nelson | Slave ship | |
| The End of Trash | March 2020 | Robert Kunzig | Luca Locatelli | Massive pile of clothes | |
| How We Lost the Planet, How we Saved the World | April 2020 | Susan Goldberg | Imaginary Forces | Earth | |
| You'll Miss Them When There Gone | May 2020 | Elizabeth Kolbert | David Liittschwager | Insects | |
| The Last Voices of World War II | June 2020 | Lynne Olson | Robert Clark | Lawrence Brooks | |
| Everest | July 2020 | Mark Synnott | William Faucett | Mount Everest | |
| Stopping Pandemics | August 2020 | Richard Conniff | Max Aguilera-Hellweg | Man in a gas mask | |
| Meet the Robots | September 2020 | David Berreby | Spencer Lowell | Robot hand | |
| Reimaging Dinosaurs | October 2020 | Michael Greshko | Davide Bonadonna | Deinonychus | |
| A World Gone Viral | November 2020 | Multiple authors & storiesd | Cédric Gerbehaye | X-ray of human lungs | |
| Saving the Great Lakes | December 2020 | Tim Folger | Keith Ladzinski | Lake Michigan |
2021
| Titlea | Date | Author | Photographer | Imagesb | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020: 71 photographs from an Unforgettable year | January 2021 | Susan Goldberg | Kris Graves | Robert E. Lee Monument | |
| Mysteries of a virus | February 2021 | David Quammen | Markos Kay | Mimivirus | |
| Mars | March 2021 | Nadia Drake | ESA | Mars | |
| The fight for Clean Air | April 2021 | Beth Gardiner | Matthieu Paley | Power plant in Ulaanbaatar | |
| Secrets of the Whales | May 2021 | Craig Welch | Brian Skerry | Humpback whale | |
| Reckoning with the Past | June 2021 | Cynthia Gorney | Kadir Nelson | Kadir Nelson painting | |
| Beating the Heat | July 2021 | Alejandra Borunda | Elliot Ross | Tree canopy | |
| Gladiators | August 2021 | Andrew Curry | Fernando Baptista | Thraex gladiator | |
| Mysteries of the Solar System | September 2021 | Michael Greshko | Monica Serrano | Patroclus | |
| The Revolution is Here | October 2021 | Craig Welch, et al. | Bose Collins | The future | |
| 100 Wonders of the World | November 2021 | Andrew Lawler | Kadir Nelson | Kadir Nelson painting | |
| Welcome to Earth | December 2021 | Paula Kahumbu | Charlie Hamilton James | Egrets & Wildebeests |
2022
| Titlea | Date | Author | Photographer | Imagesb | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 The Year in Picturesc | January 2022 | — | Health professional | ||
| Notre-Dame | February 2022 | Robert Kunzig | Tomas van Houtryve | Notre-Dame de Paris | |
| Into the Depths | March 2022 | Tara Roberts | Wayne Lawrence | shipwrecks | |
| Exploring Islands in the Sky | April 2022 | Mark Synnott | Renan Öztürk | A tepui | |
| Saving Forests | May 2022 | Alejandra Borunda | Keith Ladzinski | Forest | |
| The Power of Touch | June 2022 | Cynthia Gorney | Lynn Johnson | Woman and baby | |
| We Are Here | July 2022 | Charles C. Mann | Kiliii YuYan | Native nations | |
| Stonehenge Revealed | August 2022 | Roff Smith | Reuben Wu | Sunset at Stonehenge | |
| America the Beautiful | September 2022 | Emma Marris | Stephen Wilkes | Bears Ears | |
| Minds of Their Own | October 2022 | Yudhijit Bhattacharjee | Vincent Lagrange | Sphynx cat | |
| Tuts Treasures | November 2022 | Paolo Verzone | Sandro Vannini | Tutankhamun | |
| Pictures of the Yeard | December 2022 | — | Arturo Rodríguez | Volcanic eruption |
2023
| Titlea | Date | Author | Photographer | Imagesb | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Living Longer and Better | January 2023 | Fran Smith | Jasper Doest | Older man skydiving | |
| The Future is Folded | February 2023 | Maya Wei-Haas | Craig Cutler | Origami | |
| Going Home | March 2023 | Andrew Curry | Richard Barnes | Bronze Head from Ife | |
| 8 Billion: The Population Paradox | April 2023 | Craig Welch | Justin Metz | Earth | |
| Secrets of the Elephants | May 2023 | Srinath Perur | Brent Stirton | Asian elephants | |
| Into the Wild | June 2023 | Peter Guin | Katie Orlinsky | Gila Hot Springs | |
| Chasing the unknown | July 2023 | Multiple authors & storiesd | Steven Alvarez | Ellison's Cave | |
| An Arctic Mystery | August 2023 | Mark Synnott | Renan Öztürk | Peel Sound, Canada | |
| Inside the Dome of the Rock | September 2023 | Andrew Lawler | Ziyah Gafić | Dome of the Rock | |
| Space | October 2023 | Multiple authors & storiesd | Saturn's moon Enceladus | ||
| The Race to Save the Planet | November 2023 | Sam Howe Verhovek | Davide Monteleone | Geodesic dome | |
| Pictures of the Year | December 2023 | Multiple authorsd | Kyle Yuman | Yellow-lipped sea krait |
2024
| Titlea | Date | Author | Photographer | Imagesb | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saving the Monarchs | January 2024 | Michelle Nijhuis | Jaime Rojo | Monarch butterflies | |
| The Glass Age | February 2024 | Jay Bennett | Christopher Payne | Curled Sheet glass | |
| Spotted Hyenas | March 2024 | Christine Dell'Amore | Jen Guyton | Infrared photo of a Spotted hyena and her cub, in Kenya. | |
| Fabulous Fungi | April 2024 | Sarah Gibbens | Agorastos Papatsanis | Mushrooms of Kallipefki, Larissa, Greece | |
| Secrets of the Octopus | May 2024 | Rachel Fobar | David Liittschwager | California two-spot octopus | |
| Gulf of Maine | June 2024 | Brian Skerry | Brian Skerry | Alewives |
