With light pollution on the rise, it’s getting harder and harder to find places where you can see the stars at night. A map of Europe illustrates how rare truly dark skies are nowadays. One Redditor ...

Artificial light at night is causing ecosystems to release more carbon into the atmosphere, according to new research that ...

One look at a light pollution map Dark Sky Map can be pretty upsetting. Whole swaths of the earth, especially in North America, Europe and Asia have basically erased the night sky. Probably the only ...

It’s one of few places in the world where a immaculate dark sky is stuffed with stars while the night air is filled with spooky rasping screams. It comes against a backdrop of surging light pollution ...

Our findings suggest that this growing footprint could subtly but significantly shift the global carbon balance if left ...

America's rapid adoption of LED lighting saves money and uses less electricity. But it's also making it harder to see the stars. Light pollution comes from excessive artificial light that causes the ...

New research has revealed for the first time the full extent of how "Artificial Light At Night" (ALAN) is increasing carbon released by plants and animals across continents—without any increase in the ...

Astronomers around the world are calling for international agreements to limit the spread of satellite constellations in space, with warnings that light pollution at night from the satellites damages ...

Light pollution makes birds work overtime. A behavioral analysis of nearly 600 bird species suggests that light pollution from human development can lengthen the time birds spend singing by nearly an ...

Across Europe, scientists and citizens are uncovering a hidden legacy of contamination beneath their feet. From Denmark's ...