List of posts with the tag: National Geographic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSXcgUb5h9Y National Geographic’s new show: How Hard Can It Be?, will recreate the experience from Pixar’s movie Up, by using 300 helium ballons to lift a real house to 10,000 feet. Mr. Fredrickson was right, it is possible.

With the worldwide population expected to exceed seven billion in 2011, National Geographic magazine offers a 7-part series examining specific challenges and solutions to the issues we face. The magazine introduces the series with its January cover story “7 Billion,” offering a broad overview of demographic trends that got us to today and will impact…

Using its fins to walk, rather than swim, along the ocean floor in an undated picture, the pink handfish is one of nine newly named species described in a recent scientific review of the handfish family. Only four specimens of the elusive four-inch (10 centimeter) pink handfish have ever been found, and all of those…

Accompany present-day adventurer Conrad Anker as he recreates the 1924 ascent of George Mallory to the top of Mount Everest to solve a 75-year old mystery. Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth above sea level, and the highest point on the Earth’s continental crust, as measured by the height above sea level of…

An Australian Sea Lion attacks and eats a huge octopus in South Australia. These amazing images were captured using National Geographic’s Crittercam (a video camera attached to the Sea Lion’s body) in collaboration with the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI).