Traveling to every nation; Memorial Day's controversial roots
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY MATTHIEU PALEY | | Maybe you’re already feeling it. Warmer nights, heat waves that go on longer. Bedtimes roll later, wake times push up earlier, and people lose precious nighttime sleep.
It adds up. Sleep-deprived people, research shows, face greater heart attack risk, more intense mood disorders, and slower learning, for starters.
Now, a new study has linked such sleep loss to climate change—and it’s not theoretical, researcher Kelton Minor says. It “is already happening, right now, not in the future but today,” Minor tells Nat Geo’s Alejandra Borunda. What exactly does that mean for us?
Read the full story here. Go deeper: Subscribers can access our investigation into the science of sleep. (Pictured above, Nat Geo Explorer Matthieu Paley shows rice depot workers in Pakistan taking a break during the heat of the day.)
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY ELTON C. ANDERSON, JR. | | Intrepid traveler: More people have visited space than have visited all the world’s nations. But in 2019, Jessica Nabongo fulfilled her goal of traveling to all 195 U.N.-recognized countries. A child of immigrants from Uganda, Nabongo grew up straddling two continents. She not only wanted to step foot in each country, she was seeking a cultural experience. People often ask her about Afghanistan (pictured above). “It is a beautiful country full of life and warm people,” she tells Overheard podcast host Peter Gwin.
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| | Otherworldly: Reynisfjara is a black sand beach in southern Iceland with a striking wall of basalt columns (pictured above). There are also multiple caves, massive rocks just offshore, and crashing waves that all combine to make you feel like you’ve landed on a foreign planet. Eerie folktales and myths surround many of Iceland’s natural wonders, Nat Geo reports. | | | |
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| | | Is there a real Shangri-La? Nat Geo Explorer Paul Salopek, walking the world, went to the Muli temple in a former Tibetan kingdom in southwestern China. The site was believed to have inspired the story about a heaven on Earth. Founded in the 16th century, the temple has been rebuilt after its destruction in China’s Cultural Revolution. It now serves as a monastery for about a hundred Buddhist monks, Salopek writes. Here’s more on his Out of Eden journey. | | | |
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