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

Satellites add to light pollution significantly, says new report

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

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 …

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

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

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