National Geographic

The irreplaceable, fragile ecosystem holds six quadrillion gallons of freshwater that our planet needs to survive.

The December issue of National Geographic Magazine explores the waters beyond the United States’ third and largest coastline – the vast Great Lakes. Home to 84 per cent of North America’s fresh water and catalysts for industry and agriculture, they have been abused, poisoned and transformed into oxygen-sucking algal hotbeds rampant with invasive species. Now their critical importance – and fragility – is hitting home.

Also in this issue of National Geographic:

Snakebites why they area neglected crisis in Africa.

Songs to soothe what the songs we sing our kids around the world say about us

Arctic Dreaming in search of aurora-lit legends in the polar night of Russia’s far north

Plus

Fungi at ground level | Rethinking colours | Christmas with COVID-19 

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