The most valuable piece of art in our house is a cheap, colorful map of the United States that hangs above our kitchen table. As a learning tool, it’s priceless. I hung it up when we moved from Texas ...

Every year, the National Geographic Society sponsors a geography contest called The National Geographic Bee, wherein students in the fourth through eighth grades compete to see whose geographic ...

Images of global weather patterns are projected onto the Science on a Sphere exhibit in the Ocean Science Center at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach in 2014. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times) ...