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.
2020
+ Title Date Author Photographer Images 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
2021
+ Title Date Author Photographer Images 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
2022
+ Title Date Author Photographer Images 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
2023
+ Title Date Author Photographer Images 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
2024
+ Title Date Author Photographer Images 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
See also National Geographic National Geographic Society List of National Geographic cover stories
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References
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