Satellites add to light pollution significantly, says new report

Light from space objects scatter over a larger geographic area than sources on Earth

Switch it off!: How light pollution disorients ecosystems

Living beings depend on daily cycle of light and dark that governs behaviours such as reproduction, sleep and migration

Flip side of skyglow

City lights are creating fogs of light pollution as the entire population lives under a sky so bright that the eye cannot fully dark-adapt …

Skyglow forces dung beetles in the city to abandon the Milky Way as their compass

Increasing urbanisation and the installation of new streetlights, security floodlights and outdoor ornamental lighting all contribute to growing …

Light pollution disrupts marine organisms’ hormonal cycles, reproduction: Study

Artificial light can easily wash out the glow of moonlight and starlight, which are important cues for marine organisms

A wake-up call to reclaim the forgotten darkness in our lives

Light pollution is playing havoc with age-old rhythms of life—of sleep, procreation, metabolism, migration and foraging

You are not lazy; your body needs more sleep in winter: Study

Societies need to adjust sleep habits including length and timing to season, or adjust school and working schedules to seasonal sleep needs, …

Global Eco Watch: Atlantic Salmon returning to Maine river after dam removals

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

Seeing fewer stars? LEDs might be increasing light pollution

New lighting technologies might have increased it by 10% every year in last decade, finds study

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