"A friend who works in ecology programming told me that since 👉Disney Publishing Worldwide's👈 takeover of National Geographic 👉, completed in March 2019,👈 an
editorial rule has been set that they won't do climate change stories."
...to rectify forobvious facts.
However, your claim, though not implausible, is contrary to facts:
There are 2373 hits with "Climate Change" on NG's website, more than a dozen from 2025 so far.