Innholdsfortegnelse for May 2018 i National Geographic Magazine - UK

YOU’LL PROBABLY FEEL the redesign of National Geographic magazine before you see it. Did you notice the heavier paper on the cover and the more luxurious touch of these pages? We hope so. They’re just two of many changes introduced in this issue, to bring you a better way to read the most compelling and visually stunning stories in the world. In its 130th year, this magazine is beloved by intellectually curious people around the globe—so we took care in updating it. Please tell us what you think of the changes; our email is editor@natgeo.com. And as ever, thank you for reading National Geographic. WHAT WE’VE CHANGED New front sections Three distinct sections in the front of the magazine are densely packed with accessible information. Proof is a story told…

ON HER FIRST DAY in the sprawling South Sudanese settlement of Bidibidi in Uganda, home to almost 300,000 refugees, Swedish-German photographer Nora Lorek approached a woman and asked what she’d brought from home. “Nothing,” she replied, “except for some clothes wrapped in my bed-sheet.” Lorek scribbled, “bedsheet???” in her notebook. In 2011, South Sudan became the world’s newest country. Soon after, in 2013, it plunged into civil war. When a peace deal fell apart in 2016, more refugees streamed across the border into Uganda, where they’re allowed to work, farm, and go to school. For some it was their second, third, or fourth time fleeing home. In August 2017 the millionth refugee arrived, stretching the neighboring country’s hospitality. When Lorek asked around about the sheets, Bidibidi’s residents pulled out their…

T MINUS SIX MONTHS GEARING UP I’ll be photographing a team of extreme adventurers mountain biking across the frozen Arctic Ocean in Canada. I’ll be on a snowmobile, which is still hard work, so I need to get in good shape. A few months before, I start running and doing core workouts. In the Arctic you can’t sit down if you’re tired—you have to keep moving or get in your sleeping bag. I also put in a request to my sponsors for some gear: a down-filled sleeping mat and gloves I can shoot with. T MINUS TWO WEEKS ESSENTIAL PACKING LIST Our camp in Auyuittuq is 50 miles from civilization in any direction, so I take everything I need for the 2.5-day February trip. • Emergency beacon • A satellite…

AT THE SOUTH END of Fakarava Atoll, a 35-mile-long rectangle of coral in French Polynesia, a narrow channel cuts through the barrier reef. Every June thousands of camouflage groupers congregate in that channel, in an area the size of two to three football fields, to spawn the next generation. Violent tidal currents funnel through every six hours, filling and emptying the lagoon. The groupers, fat and about two feet long, are not alone: Hundreds of gray reef sharks assemble as well, to stalk them. The female groupers, like other reef fish, spend at most a few days in the spawning grounds. Yet for some reason the males, which lead solitary lives most of the year, spend weeks crowded into this treacherous place—until finally the whole mass of fish spawn at…

I HAVE WATCHED THE #METOO campaign as avidly as anyone. I have gone to bed each night wondering who will be outed as a sexual harasser in the morning, whether it will be another one of my political heroes or someone we all recognize from mainstream media or Hollywood. We’ve seen many of these perpetrators lose jobs, be forced to resign, and face economic difficulty because of their abhorrent behaviors. But I have not gone to bed a single night in all these months wondering what scientist would be sacked in the morning because of his transgressions—let alone be publicly outed—because scientist-harassers rarely lose their jobs. Allow me to explain. For the past six years I’ve conducted research on sexual harassment in the sciences and worked to raise awareness of…

A RARE-BOOK CONSERVATOR MUST HAVE patience, an eye for detail, and the guts to deconstruct priceless national treasures. When a book is going to be exhibited, digitized, or, say, used for a political swearing in, it lands on the desk of Yasmeen Khan, one of 10 rare-book conservators at the Library of Congress. She’ll mend its pages with wheat-starch paste and tissue paper, resew its binding, or dismantle it entirely. Books that need a full renovation can take months of painstaking work. In them, Khan is able to see “the logic of the craftsmen of the past.” —NINA STROCHLIC 1. Divider This tool can quickly transfer measurements from one surface to another without need for a ruler. 2. Polished lapis lazuli Traditionally an agate is used to polish paper; Khan…

There was nothing to do but watch as the copper-domed building in the southern Texas oil town of Victoria burned down. The mosque where Abe Ajrami’s Beyoncéloving daughter was feted with other high school graduates, the mosque where his children went to religion classes, the mosque where he and his family went every Friday to pray and mingle over a potluck of seven-layer dip and spiced biryani, was gone. “I was trying not to break down,” says Ajrami, a Palestinian American who raced to the mosque after getting a phone call in the dead of night. He recounts the experience to me in his living room as his wife, Heidi, an American convert to Islam, sits to his right and his daughters, Hannah and Jenin, sit to his left, while…

Nestled among white-sand beaches and brightly colored resorts, the mangrove swamps along Mexico’s Yucatán coast are a paradise for birds and the people who enjoy watching them. The densely wooded swamps, located along a major avian migration route, offer safe haven to the millions of birds that make fraught intercontinental flights between the Americas each year. My guide to this flyway rest stop, Luis Salinas-Peba, is a soft-spoken scientist at the local campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. A botanist by training, Salinas-Peba is also a master of bird identification who can name just about every species we see and hear packed among the mangroves. The mix of long-distance migrants and local species is dazzling: Blue-winged teals from Canada cross paths with endemic Yucatán wrens. Towering pink…

From his early childhood years sketching in the dirt to his final hours at age 91, Pablo Picasso was devoted to mastering his deeply personal art. He’s considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, and his work continues to be studied for its meaning and celebrated for its creativity. His subject matter and style, inspired by his many lovers and by other artists, were ever changing. Picasso’s work is loosely divided here into 14 distinct phases, coupled with the artist’s own words. 1 1889-1898 EARLY YEARS “ When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll end up as the pope!’ Instead, I became a painter and wound up as…

1 Double-thick brick walls and precast concrete have high “thermal masses”; it takes a lot of heat to change their temperatures. The same is true of soil around termite nests. 2 Air shafts direct night-cooled, filtered air in the mornings from the lower atrium up through seven floors of office space. The airflow is assisted only by low-power fans. 3 Double-layer concrete floors are cooled by night air flowing between their layers. They keep the circulating air as cool as possible until it warms and is vented out at the ceilings. THE CHALLENGE: Design a modern office and retail building without expensive air-conditioning for relief from Zimbabwe’s tropical heat. The solution: Emulate the engineering prowess of native termites by copying aspects of their systems. This approach, called biomimicry, enabled architect…

DISCOVERY 1 VENETIA BURNEY This 11-year-old British girl gets credit for the idea to name the celestial body “Pluto,” after the Roman god of the underworld. 2 CLYDE TOMBAUGH He discovered the dwarf planet on February 18, 1930, while working at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. SCIENTISTS AND EXPLORERS 3 MUHAMMAD AL-IDRISI The 12th-century Arab cartographer’s book of global maps, The Book of Pleasant Journeys Into Faraway Lands, remained a definitive record for centuries. 4 JAMES LUDLOW ELLIOT By carefully observing how planets block and reveal the light of distant stars, he discovered Uranus’s rings and Pluto’s thin atmosphere. 5 EDMUND HILLARY The New Zealand mountaineer and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay were the first people to summit Mount Everest, Earth’s highest point. 6 TENZING NORGAY The icy mountain range—as high as…

Muslims in the United States are a racially and ethnically diverse group—and a growing one, despite a recent rise in anti-Muslim hostility. From dozens of different countries and representing multiple branches of their faith, Muslims now total about 3.45 million people, or one percent of the U.S. population. With roots dating back to the 16th century, the Muslim population is currently growing faster in suburbs than in cities, especially in southern and western regions. There are now more than 2,100 mosques in the U.S., up from 962 in 1994. LAYING A FOUNDATION…

Birds are exceptionally diverse, with more than 10,000 known species—all of them the descendants of dinosaurs. Early birds evolved from theropods, the fierce, three-toed predator family that also included Tyrannosaurus rex. The latest genetic clues and fossil finds suggest that at least three lineages of modern birds arose during the Cretaceous period and survived a mass extinction 66 million years ago. In the wake of that disaster, the survivors saw a boom in diversity, with the family tree branching rapidly. These discoveries are helping us better understand how birds evolved and how they’re related to each other, from the tiny hummingbird to the towering ostrich. BIRDS NOT TO SCALE MÓNICA SERRANO, NGM STAFF; MESA SCHUMACHER. SOURCES: DANIEL J. FIELD, UNIVERSITY OF BATH; INTERNATIONAL ORNITHOLOGICAL CONGRESS; IUCN RED LIST; REPTILE DATABASE;…

Picasso drew inspiration from mythology, from war, from those who surrounded him, even—he proclaimed—from spiderwebs. The result is tens of thousands of works that seem to touch on countless topics. But many of the subjects that fascinated him, including death and sexuality, repeatedly surface in his art throughout the decades. Those recurring themes are grouped in a sampling of some 8,000 of Picasso’s works, artistically rendered here. They can be found in portraits that radically blur the line between subject and painter, and in an array of arresting symbols such as the Minotaur, bottle, and harlequin. PICASSO BY THEME Each of the 12 themes below is further divided into artistic subcategories, some of which include the titles of individual works. The size of each category reflects the number of artworks…