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April 2006
The Next Big One
We understand earthquakes better than we did a century ago, when San Francisco was flattened.
Features
Control Panel
Inside Chernobyl
Twenty years after a nuclear reactor exploded, the catastrophe isn't over.
Boy Lawnmower
Nuclear Power
It's controversial. It's expensive. And it just might save the Earth.
Cathedral Desert
Glen Canyon Revealed
A sustained drought has shriveled Lake Powell in the Southwest to expose a wonderland.
Chavez Television
The New Venezuela
Hugo Chávez won the presidency of Venezuela by a landslide in 1998.
Mating Flying
Dragonfly Mating Game
Grab, shake, bite, puncture, punch—that's just the courtship ritual.
Brazil Beach
Visions of Earth
Each month, National Geographic features breathtaking photographs in Visions of Earth.
Earthquake Black White
Flashback
An image from 1906, weeks after the most destructive earthquake in history.