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PHOTOGRAPH BY MATTHIEU PALEY
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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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