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Picture: Calling All Kids: Make a Flag for the Oceans Photograph by Ford Cochran

Calling All Kids: Make a Flag for the Oceans

National Geographic Kids has partnered up with some of the world’s best-known marine explorers on a contest to design the official flag for the next Ocean Now expedition. Read More

60 Minutes Dives Deep With Robert Ballard

Sunday night, the popular CBS news program 60 Minutes plans to profile pioneering oceanographer and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Robert Ballard. Read More

Picture: Sylvia Earle’s Blue World

Sylvia Earle's Blue World

Fresh from her dives at Cocos and Las Gemelas, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle appears tonight with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report, where she’ll discuss her new book, The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One. Read More

Picture: A Message of Hope Photography by Enric Sala

A Message of Hope

We have returned to mainland Costa Rica, after three amazing weeks at Cocos Island and Las Gemelas seamounts. What have we learned? Read More

Picture: The Pirate’s Cove Photograph by Ford Cochran

The Pirate's Cove

Through the years, many visitors to Cocos Island have carved their names into large stones on the beach at Chatham Bay. Read More