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Including excessive light and inappropriate light placement, colour, intensity, wavelengths, timing of use, flicker frequency, and/or flashing.
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Light and noise pollution threatens the resilience of social and environmental systems, as well as global health and economic stability.
Businesses have a crucial role to play in protecting people and nature. Anchored in research, our guide aims to support your as it develops a strategy to eliminate light and noise pollution from its own operations and in its value chain.
This fascinating and heartfelt article can help you to better understand and appreciate the growing problem of light pollution, and the long-term effects it is having on humans and nature.
This article may be useful as part of an executive primer on the effects of light pollution, highlighting evocative examples such as bird collisions, algae blooms, and beached baby turtles.
Artificial lighting within towns and cities, along roads and highways, and at business sites is so pervasive that it can be easy to overlook or underestimate their effect on ecosystems. This article from Nature can help you to understand the profound impact that light pollution is having on ecology, such as migrational species and insects, as well as the results of experiments conducted to identify harm reduction alternatives.
This resource from Australia's Department of the Environment and Energy provides a framework that can help you to assess and manage the impact of artificial light on susceptible wildlife. It introduces a multi-step approach that explains how artificial light impacts wildlife; highlights the principles of best practice light design; explains how to determine biologically relevant luminance and perform artificial light auditing; and provides an artificial light management checklist. The guidance also features species-specific appendices and case studies.
DarkSky International is a non-profit organisation committed to preserving and protecting the night-time environment and shared heritage of dark skies. Their website provides a wide array of information to grow your understanding of the causes and effects of light pollution, with themes specific to wildlife and ecosystems, energy waste, human health, and the intersection of lighting, crime, and safety. Their resources also include videos, infographics, and a research library.
This resource presents a modern world atlas of global luminance. The content presented here can help you to better visualise and understand the extent to which light pollution is a global issue.
This interactive light pollution map provides an array of overlay options that can help you to see the trends in light pollution over the past decade.