National Geographic magazine, April 2025 Issue

Introducing the inaugural National Geographic 33. National Geographic stories take you on a journey that's always enlightening, often surprising and unfailingly fascinating. This month–our inaugural collection of visionary changemakers who are striving to make the world a better place.

In this issue: National Geographic 33: 2025 — Meet 33 innovative leaders who are using their voices and talents to tackle the planet’s most pressing issues.; How the Congo became the world’s most critical rainforest — For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers is revealing unexpected ways to protect the planet.; These ancient fish swam with the dinosaurs. They may not survive us. — For 162 million years, sturgeons have fended off everything they’ve faced. Now scientists are racing to save these living fossils.; What are birds doing when they fly in swarms? Scientists may now know. — For centuries, researchers have pondered how starlings travel in those gorgeous shape-shifting clouds. The answers continue to surprise them.