National Geographic Emerging Explorer Jake Porway is connecting nonprofits with data scientists eager to use their skills with numbers and stats to help solve community and environmental problems.

National Geographic Emerging Explorer and cyborg anthropologist Amber Case studies how the interaction between humans and computers is changing the way we think, act, and understand our world.

National Geographic Emerging Explorer and underwater archaeologist Guillermo de Anda dives into remote, flooded caves and cenotes (sinkholes) in Mexico, searching for signs of the ancient Maya.

The Colorado River was once mighty enough to carve the Grand Canyon, but now human use drains it to a trickle that never reaches the sea. National Geographic Emerging Explorer Osvel Hinojosa Huerta is leading efforts to change that.

Adding to our understanding of human origins is the life's work of National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Meave Leakey, as she continues her family's legacy of uncovering fossils of our ancient ancestors in East Africa.

Whether looking at what causes locusts to swarm, or how people function as a society, National Geographic Emerging Explorer and behavioral ecologist Iain Couzin is finding fascinating ways creatures accomplish things in groups that they never could as individuals.

National Geographic grantee and ethologist Joyce Poole uses citizen science and Web technology to bring elephant conservation into the 21st century.

Emerging Explorer Patrick Meier pioneers the lifesaving new field of crisis mapping, which is helping revolutionize the effectiveness of relief efforts worldwide.

Raised in Miami's inner city, surrounded by crime and poverty, Emerging Explorer and aviator Barrington Irving beat the odds to become the youngest person to fly solo around the world and now works to inspire young people to pursue their dreams through the world of aviation.

National Geographic Fellow Jason Clay draws on the power of social media to help solve global issues like water scarcity.

Emerging Explorer and zoologist Lucy Cooke is on a one-woman crusade to champion ugly and unloved creatures so vital to Earth's biodiversity.

Emerging Explorer and guerrilla geographer Daniel Raven-Ellison packs a spirit of adventure into education.

National Geographic Fellow Corey Jaskolski and his team design new technologies—like color night vision—to open new worlds to exploration.

Photographer Joel Sartore portrays some of the world's most imperiled creatures—from whooping cranes to wolves—before they become extinct.

Photographer Joel Sartore snaps 20,000 images to create a short story of a snake festival in a small town.

Catch the excitement when National Geographic explorers gather at headquarters to share their adventures with host Boyd Matson.

Far north of the Arctic Circle, emerging explorer Jørn Hurum coaxes the secrets of evolution from a rocky polar desert with a treasure trove of fossils, including sea monsters of the Jurassic era.

Emerging Explorer Sasha Kramer fights some of Haiti’s most pressing health, economic, and environmental problems, one toilet at a time.

Can tiny sea creatures affect weather around the world? Emerging Explorer Kakani Katija looks to a new field of science for answers.

In a land shaped by centuries of conflict, Emerging Explorer Aziz Abu Sarah dealt with the death of his brother by working to build bridges between Israelis and Palestinians.

The best chance of discovering life beyond Earth may lie in the icy moons of Jupiter.

Emerging Explorer Paula Kahumbu seeks to balance the demands of Nairobi's sprawling population with saving the migration paths of lions, giraffes, and wildebeests.

National Geographic Fellow and acclaimed chef Barton Seaver wants to restore our ties to the natural world — through dinner.

Emerging Explorer Dino Martins says that from long-tongued bees to hawk moths, pollinators are the hidden workers that keep the planet running.