Light
pollution has
worsened worldwide in
last 5
years, with LED
lights implicated
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People are losing their view of the night sky all across the globe.*
A sweeping new study analyzing five years of satellite data reveals that nights are growing brighter around the world as cities switch to more energy efficient LEDs.*
The
new study, published in the journal
Science Advances, shows that global
Light pollution has increased by about 2 percent per year from 2012 to 2016. This increase is important to document, since a range of health-related issues for wildlife and even humans have been traced to
Light pollution.
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