At 8.30pm it's #EarthHour, a time to switch off excess lighting & connect with #nature. Let's hope those near our #Oxfordshire #Cotswolds farm & planners considering development have heard about it. These lights are from just two homes. A story featured in 'This Is Not My Land'. #lightpollution
The night sky used to be a map of wonder. Now, in too many places, it’s fading to grey. #DarkSky #LightPollution #ProtectTheNight #astro
The amount to which the #TD Toronto-Dominion Bank is polluting the #Toronto sky with light is simply incredible. The full moon it is much less bright. And we need to close shutters even if the building is a few hundred metres away.
#lightpollution
Night-lit advertising banners can function as novel microhabitats for #geckos, influencing #habitat use in urban environments zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #urbanecology #reptiles #ALAN #lightpollution @elissazcameron.bsky.social @uhl-lab.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social
A single digital billboard can use as much electricity as 37 homes.
All night. Every night.
Unlike safety lighting, these screens exist only to sell, yet they drive emissions and wasted energy.
www.wharfedaleobserver.co.uk/news/2349858...
#DarkSkyTexas #EnergyWaste #LightPollution #ClimateImpact
"Astronomy educates the public; astronomy trains a data- and technology-centred workforce; astronomy supports other sciences, providing a laboratory to physicists and a chance to investigate other worlds to biologists and geologists; astronomy inspires curiosity and art and interest in science […]
Streetlights get the blame for light pollution, but they are not the biggest culprit.
Mounted lights and billboards create far more urban skyglow.
If we want real change, we need to target the brightest sources.
#DarkSkyTexas #LightPollution #ResponsibleLighting #ProtectTheNight
Thousands of communes across France switch off public lighting in the middle of the night to save energy & reduce #lightpollution, a global problem. Think LasVegas
The argument: lights make people safer. Yet, reduced street lighting in England/Wales was not associated with significant changes in crime or with the number of road collisions. Negative effects of
#lightpollution on nature, as well as human & plant health, are unequivocal.
#Belgium is one of the most lightpolluted European countries, its skies not visible.
Many streetlights will be permanently turned off in coming months. Other ER countries are also turning off their lights in an effort to protect nature which has struggled with lack of darkness. #lightpollution
NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens , using data courtesy of Smyth, T.J., et al. (2021)
Finally we address how global change affects nocturnality
#lightpollution #climatechange #disturbance
What is the future of the nocturnal niche?
The picture book The Class with Wings by Paul Fleischman and Hannah Salyer Cameron Kids Abrams
This is an inspiring, engaging book for this time of year, when the birds return to our neighborhoods and schoolyards. #birds #birdwatching #birders #lightpollution My book recommendation: bit.ly/4sv7FaH
A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth
#Science #AI #SpaceX #Starlink #NightSky #Astronomy #Environment #SpaceDebris #LightPollution #ClimateImpact #Satellite #SpaceIndustry #EarthOrbit #Astronomers #Pollution
the-14.com/a-million-ne...
See you at the end of Summer, Andromeda! #Astronomy #Astrophotography #LightPollution #northcarolina
Pink LED grow lights illuminate the night sky with silhouettes of trees in the foreground.
What's up? I like eerie things.
#Photography
#NightSky
#LightPollution
🌙⭐💡 La Professoressa Elena Maggi sarà ospite di un evento a Carrara il prossimo mercoledì 25 marzo ospite della locale sezione di #Legambiente per parlare di inquinamento luminoso.
👉https://www.facebook.com/events/1127877572834548
#lightpollution #ALAN #inquinamentoluminoso
Very good save the #birds hopefully #TimesSquare will also be included this place contributes too much to #lightpollution
www.timeout.com/newyork/news... #wildlife #AnimalRights #sleep
Texas skies are more than beautiful. They are critical for nocturnal birds trying to migrate, feed, and survive.
Artificial light at night is throwing off their rhythm. Learn what’s happening and how you can help:
darkskytexas.org/alan-nocturn...
#LightPollution #DarkSkyTexas #WildlifeProtection
We think of pollution as plastic floating or oil leaking… but what about ✨light✨?
Artificial light at night can disrupt insects moving between water 💧 and land 🌲 with ripple effects across ecosystems.
The Behavioural Ecology Lab @helsinki.fi is studying just this! 🔬
#LightPollution #Biodiversity
“Eyes up! The Northern Lights may shine bright across Canada in the nights ahead”
… not over Toronto though because it’ll be cloudy (of course) and #LightPollution
www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/scie...
📄 New paper out! 🦇
🌃 Turning off street lights earlier can help reduce light pollution impacts on an endemic bat species on Réunion Island
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
#Bats #LightPollution #ALAN #Conservation
@cnrs.fr @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @geode-cnrs.bsky.social @cesco-lab.bsky.social @mnhn.fr
Where are the top places for stargazing and starbathing in Europe?
Ahead of International Dark Sky Week in April, here are some of the best locations in Europe to see the stars.
#StarGazing #Europe #Astronomy #LightPollution #NorthernLights #Stars #Travel #DarkSkyWeek
What was so interesting about Adam's research was that ways to mitigate the #LightPollution impacts of #cruise ships already exist and are used elsewhere (like in Antarctica), meaning it should be easy to improve conditions for #seabirds around Scottish islands if we just turn our attention to it!
Maybe out in the #islands, but how much #lightpollution exists in #Athens and is the country so great for #noctourism? greekreporter.com/2026/03/14/n... #animals #wildlife #tourism
The most recent issue of Free Astronomy Magazine (March-April 2026) is available for your reading and downloading pleasure in English, Italian, Spanish, French, Arabic, and Chinese at www.astropublishing.com #astronomy #lightpollution
Go Dark: Countdown to International Dark Sky Week | April 13–20, 2026 - Pledge to Protect the Night! idsw.darksky.org via @darkskyintl.bsky.social #darksky #protectthenight #bluesky #night #lightpollution #nighttime
Bats provide enormous ecological and economic value through insect control.
Excess artificial light disrupts their hunting patterns, signaling deeper ecosystem instability.
Darkness supports balance.
#DarkSkyTexas #BatConservation #EcosystemBalance #LightPollution #TexasNature
"FCC Deciding Whether to Allow Startup to Launch Huge Mirror Satellite to Blast Sunlight on Cities at Nighttime" https://share.google/yLgUCgB0CkwvrAWNL
#lightpollution
#g7izu
And, oh, by the way,it accelerates climate change by sending more sunlight down through the atmosphere. . . #climatechange #globalwarming #space #satellite #lightpollution #geoengineering #badidea
