NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE APRIL 2015

NEWS
PRESS RELEASE
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE
APRIL 2015
CONTACT: Anna Kukelhaus Dynan
+1 (202) 775-6717
akukelha@ngs.org
Look for the April issue on digital newsstands (online at ngm.com, on smartphones
and on tablet computers) March 13 and on print newsstands March 31.
Authors and photographers are available for interviews. Photos and video are available.
Lincoln
On the 150th anniversary of the Great
Emancipator’s assassination, Americans
along the route of Lincoln’s funeral train
debate his legacy.
How Coal Fuels India’s
Insurgency
(Adam Goodheart, photographs by Eugene Richards)
In mineral-rich jungles, Maoist militants
find a foothold through violence and
extortion.
(by Anthony Loyd, photographs by Lynsey Addario)
The Bug That’s Eating the
Woods
Hubble’s Greatest Hits
Trajan’s Amazing Column
(by Hillary Rosner, photographs by Peter Essick)
*Footage available
(by Timothy Ferris)
*Footage available
*Footage available
After 25 years on the job, the Hubble
On a pillar of Carrara marble, an
Space
Telescope
stands
as
“one
of
the
emperor’s exploits tower over Rome.
A warming climate allowed pine beetles
(by Andrew Curry, photographs by Kenneth
world’s
most
productive
and
popular
to ravage the West. Now they’re
Garrett)
scientific
machines.”
spreading east across Canada.
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membership to the Society.
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