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  2. Light pollution is getting worse, but there is a movement to ...

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    Losing the dark. Light pollution, the term for the brightening of the night sky by unnatural lights, is increasing worldwide. On average, skies are getting 10% brighter each year globally, with ...

  3. Ecological light pollution - Wikipedia

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    Ecological light pollution [1] is the effect of artificial light on individual organisms and on the structure of ecosystems as a whole.. The effect that artificial light has upon organisms is highly variable, [2] and ranges from beneficial (e.g. increased ability for predator species to observe prey) to immediately fatal (e.g. moths that are attracted to incandescent lanterns and are killed by ...

  4. Scotobiology - Wikipedia

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    One consequence of artificial light pollution [3] is that even brief periods of relatively bright light during the night may prevent plants or animals (including humans) from measuring the length of the dark period, and therefore from behaving in a normal or required manner. This is a critical aspect of scotobiology, and one of the major areas ...

  5. Light pollution - Wikipedia

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    Light pollution is the presence of any unwanted, inappropriate, or excessive artificial lighting. [1] [2] In a descriptive sense, the term light pollution refers to the effects of any poorly implemented lighting sources, during the day or night. Light pollution can be understood not only as a phenomenon resulting from a specific source or kind ...

  6. To make that assumption work, astronomers have used the concept of dark energy. For a century, scientists have thought that the universe was expanding in all directions.

  7. Escaping light pollution: Stargazing is amazing in these ...

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    More than 99% of Americans live under skies polluted by light. But dark skies at the Grand Canyon and more than 145 other spots offer stargazing awe.

  8. Skyglow - Wikipedia

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    Humans cannot perceive this pattern, but some arthropods can. Skyglow, and more generally light pollution, has various negative effects: from aesthetic diminishment of the beauty of a star-filled sky, through energy and resources wasted in the production of excessive or uncontrolled lighting, to impacts on birds [22] and other biological ...

  9. Globe at Night - Wikipedia

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    Light pollution, the introduction of artificial light into formerly dark ecosystems, has numerous adverse ecological effects. Exposure to artificial light can prove fatal for some organisms (e.g. moths that fly into a burning flame), can interrupt a life cycle phase for others (e.g. glowworms are unable to attract mates), and can reduce the ...