Hein van Grouw, Senior Curator of Birds, and UK Biodiversity Training Manager Steph Holt reveal the impacts of light pollution on British wildlife and a few tips for reclaiming your slice of the night ...

“Darkness,” one says. “Being able to see that sky. Where I live, there is light pollution,” goes another. That was no coincidence. According to numbers from the report The new world atlas ...

Outside air pollution is mainly caused by traffic and factories that release pollutants like nitrogen oxide and sulphur dioxide into the air. When those pollutants interact with light they produce ...

Light pollution—the needless shining of bright lights into the night sky—has robbed whole generations of the chance to see nature on its largest scale. It is estimated that as many as eighty ...

Lights from North Liberty, Iowa City, West Branch and Interstate 80 illuminate the night sky behind the 1883 Secrest ...

Light pollution and its trademark “skyglow” is getting worse. Much worse. It’s getting so serious that stars, beautiful open clusters and even distant galaxies in the night sky there were ...

That's because of light pollution, which happens when artificial light is directed towards the sky and reflects back onto earth. Among various other consequences, it washes out the night sky in ...

Prof Kelsey Johnson, an astronomer from the University of Virginia, who gave a TED talk about ways to solve the light pollution problem, told BBC News: "We waste tremendous resources on light that ...

Scientists say light pollution may be contributing to "worrying" declines in insects seen in recent decades. In a UK study, artificial street lights were found to disrupt the behaviour of ...

More than 99% of Americans live under skies polluted by light. But dark skies above the Grand Canyon and 147 other spots ...