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| | Narcolepsy. Acting out dreams. And, for tens of millions of people, insomnia.
Researchers are just beginning to understand COVID’s damaging toll to sleep patterns. As many as 60 percent of people who had COVID have reported insomnia, studies show. Even just thinking about COVID led to insomnia. Places like Hong Kong started “buses to nowhere” (pictured above in 2021) as a possible cure.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY LUCA LOCATELLI | | | Extreme gardening: Basil grown underwater is special—just ask Luca Locatelli who photographed Nemo’s Garden, an herb farm with nine biosphere gardens (including the one pictured above) anchored to the bottom of the sea. He tried their pesto made with basil that contains more chlorophyll and antioxidants than surface basil, as well as a different mix of essential oils. | | | |
| Disappearing giants: Many were alive during the reign of Julius Caesar and bear more leaves than there are people in China. At 300 feet tall, the giant sequoia pictured above (and on our Instagram) towers above neighboring white firs in California's Sequoia National Park. Despite their resilience, climate change is threatening the mammoths—up to 19 percent of sequoias died between 2020 and 2021, Nat Geo reports.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY JUERGEN FREUND, NATURE PICTURE LIBRARY | | | Tastes like bacon: Will people of the future dine on fine algae? Hopefully, say the scientists who believe algae has the potential to feed the world’s rapidly growing population. Algae, like seaweed, is fast-growing and full of protein, fiber, micronutrients like iron, and vitamins. And, if you prepare it right, tastes just like bacon, writes Nat Geo’s Sarah Gibbens. (Pictured above, one of thousands of algae species.) | | | |
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