This is a list of National Geographic cover stories including writers and photographers starting from .
For a complete list of cover stories from to, see the List of National Geographic cover stories.
Title | Date | Author | Photographer | Images | ||
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Pain | January 2020 | Robert Clark, et al. | Magic Torch | Human brain | ||
Last Journey into Slavery | February 2020 | Joel K. Bourne, Jr., et al. | Kadir Nelson | Slave ship | ||
The End of Trash | March 2020 | Robert Kunzig | Luca Locatelli | Massive pile of clothes | ||
How We Lost the Planet, How we Saved the World | April 2020 | Susan Goldberg | Imaginary Forces | Earth | ||
You'll Miss Them When There Gone | May 2020 | Elizabeth Kolbert | David Liittschwager | Insects | ||
The Last Voices of World War II | June 2020 | Lynne Olson | Robert Clark | Lawrence Brooks | ||
Everest | July 2020 | Mark Synnott | William Faucett | Mount Everest | ||
Stopping Pandemics | August 2020 | Richard Conniff | Max Aguilera-Hellweg | Man in a gas mask | ||
Meet the Robots | September 2020 | David Berreby | Spencer Lowell | Robot hand | ||
Reimaging Dinosaurs | October 2020 | Michael Greshko | Davide Bonadonna | Deinonychus | ||
A World Gone Viral | November 2020 | Multiple authors & stories | Cédric Gerbehaye | X-ray of human lungs | ||
Saving the Great Lakes | December 2020 | Tim Folger | Keith Ladzinski | Lake Michigan |
Title | Date | Author | Photographer | Images | ||
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2020: 71 photographs from an Unforgettable year | January 2021 | Susan Goldberg | Kris Graves | Robert E. Lee Monument | ||
Mysteries of a virus | February 2021 | David Quammen | Markos Kay | Mimivirus | ||
Mars | March 2021 | Nadia Drake | ESA | Mars | ||
The fight for Clean Air | April 2021 | Beth Gardiner | Matthieu Paley | Power plant in Ulaanbaatar | ||
Secrets of the Whales | May 2021 | Craig Welch | Brian Skerry | Humpback whale | ||
Reckoning with the Past | June 2021 | Cynthia Gorney | Kadir Nelson | Kadir Nelson painting | ||
Beating the Heat | July 2021 | Alejandra Borunda | Elliot Ross | Tree canopy | ||
Gladiators | August 2021 | Andrew Curry | Fernando Baptista | Thraex gladiator | ||
Mysteries of the Solar System | September 2021 | Michael Greshko | Monica Serrano | Patroclus | ||
The Revolution is Here | October 2021 | Craig Welch, et al. | Bose Collins | The future | ||
100 Wonders of the World | November 2021 | Andrew Lawler | Kadir Nelson | Kadir Nelson painting | ||
Welcome to Earth | December 2021 | Paula Kahumbu | Charlie Hamilton James | Egrets & Wildebeests |
Title | Date | Author | Photographer | Images | ||
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2021 The Year in Pictures | January 2022 | Health professional | ||||
Notre-Dame | February 2022 | Robert Kunzig | Tomas van Houtryve | Notre-Dame de Paris | ||
Into the Depths | March 2022 | Tara Roberts | Wayne Lawrence | shipwrecks | ||
Exploring Islands in the Sky | April 2022 | Mark Synnott | Renan Öztürk | A tepui | ||
Saving Forests | May 2022 | Alejandra Borunda | Keith Ladzinski | Forest | ||
The Power of Touch | June 2022 | Cynthia Gorney | Lynn Johnson | Woman and baby | ||
We Are Here | July 2022 | Charles C. Mann | Kiliii YuYan | Native nations | ||
Stonehenge Revealed | August 2022 | Roff Smith | Reuben Wu | Sunset at Stonehenge | ||
America the Beautiful | September 2022 | Emma Marris | Stephen Wilkes | Bears Ears | ||
Minds of Their Own | October 2022 | Yudhijit Bhattacharjee | Vincent Lagrange | Sphynx cat | ||
Tuts Treasures | November 2022 | Paolo Verzone | Sandro Vannini | Tutankhamun | ||
Pictures of the Year | December 2022 | Arturo Rodríguez | Volcanic eruption |
Title | Date | Author | Photographer | Images | ||
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Living Longer and Better | January 2023 | Fran Smith | Jasper Doest | Older man skydiving | ||
The Future is Folded | February 2023 | Maya Wei-Haas | Craig Cutler | Origami | ||
Going Home | March 2023 | Andrew Curry | Richard Barnes | Bronze Head from Ife | ||
8 Billion: The Population Paradox | April 2023 | Craig Welch | Justin Metz | Earth | ||
Secrets of the Elephants | May 2023 | Srinath Perur | Brent Stirton | Asian elephants | ||
Into the Wild | June 2023 | Peter Guin | Katie Orlinsky | Gila Hot Springs | ||
Chasing the unknown | July 2023 | Multiple authors & stories | Steven Alvarez | Ellison's Cave | ||
An Arctic Mystery | August 2023 | Mark Synnott | Renan Öztürk | Peel Sound, Canada | ||
Inside the Dome of the Rock | September 2023 | Andrew Lawler | Ziyah Gafić | Dome of the Rock | ||
Space | October 2023 | Multiple authors & stories | Saturn's moon Enceladus | |||
The Race to Save the Planet | November 2023 | Sam Howe Verhovek | Davide Monteleone | Geodesic dome | ||
Pictures of the Year | December 2023 | Multiple authors | Kyle Yuman | Yellow-lipped sea krait |
Title | Date | Author | Photographer | Images | ||
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Saving the Monarchs | January 2024 | Michelle Nijhuis | Jaime Rojo | Monarch butterflies | ||
The Glass Age | February 2024 | Jay Bennett | Christopher Payne | Curled Sheet glass | ||
Spotted Hyenas | March 2024 | Christine Dell'Amore | Jen Guyton | Infrared photo of a Spotted hyena and her cub, in Kenya. | ||
Fabulous Fungi | April 2024 | Sarah Gibbens | Agorastos Papatsanis | Mushrooms of Kallipefki, Larissa, Greece | ||
Secrets of the Octopus | May 2024 | Rachel Fobar | David Liittschwager | California two-spot octopus | ||
Gulf of Maine | June 2024 | Brian Skerry | Brian Skerry | Alewives | ||
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