November 13, 2024 – Pulsed artificial light at night alters moth flight behaviour – LED vehicle headlights impacting moth behavior.
November 12, 2024 – Exposure to constant artificial light alters honey bee sleep rhythms and disrupts sleep – Bees are adversely impacted by artificial light at night.
October 10, 2024 – Blue and white light pollution is disastrous for Cory’s shearwater fledglings – Birds are severely impacted by blue-rich light.
October 8, 2024 – Shedding light with harmonic radar: Unveiling the hidden impacts of streetlights on moth flight behavior – Impacts of streetlights on moths.
July 26, 2024 – How to reduce the negative impacts of artificial light at night on flying insects – Reduced light levels and homogeneity of coverage reduces adverse insect impacts.
January 20, 2024 – Research Note: Red light to mitigate light pollution: Is it possible to balance functionality and ecological impact? – Even red light at night can have adverse ecological impacts.
January 19, 2024 – Artificial light at night reduces earthworm activity but increases growth of invasive ragweed – Light pollution reduced earthworm surface activity by 76% and increased ragweed height growth by 104%.
January 11, 2024 – How Artificial Light Threatens Nature – Video documentary that details how artificial light is devastating the ecosystem.
January 4, 2024 – Why flying insects gather at artificial light – Insects turn their dorsum towards the lights which provides orientation. Artificial light causes the insects to steer in a circle until death.
October 30, 2023 – Light Pollution in Complex Ecological Systems – Light pollution is increasing at 10% per year and adversely impacting entire ecosystems.
September 21, 2023 – Phenotypic signatures of urbanization? Resident, but not migratory, songbird eye size varies with urban-associated light pollution levels – The eye size of urban birds is shrinking.
September 19, 2023 – Healing with the Night: Investigations into Experiences of Natural Darkness in Overnight Recollective Practices – The healing properties of natural night.
September 14, 2022 – Environmental risks from artificial nighttime lighting widespread and increasing across Europe – LEDs have increased light pollution and have increased the emissions of toxic blue wavelength light.
September 9, 2022 – The Dark Side of LEDs: Suppression of Melatonin by Blue Light – An article about the studies of researcher
May 20, 2022 – Light pollution can disorient monarch butterflies – Even a single light can interfere with a butterfly’s navigation system.
March 29, 2022 – Broad spectrum artificial light at night increases the conspicuousness of camouflaged prey – LED light leads to predator advantage.
April 27, 2022 – Oriented Migratory Flight at Night: Consequences of nighttime light pollution for monarch butterflies – ALAN interferes with monarch butterfly migration.
January 27, 2022 – The growing threat of light pollution to ground-based observatories – Impacts of skyglow on dark skies.
2022 – Artificial Light at Night: State of the Science 2022 – IDA report. Discusses how LED light is increasing light pollution. Falsely claims that LEDs are energy efficient.
August, 2021 – Street lighting has detrimental impacts on local insect populations – This study shows that LEDs are killing insects even faster than High Pressure Sodium.
August, 2021 – First Estimation of Global Trends in Nocturnal Power Emissions Reveals Acceleration of Light Pollution – Light pollution continues to grow and LED blue wavelength light is making it worse.
April, 2021 – Narrow Spectrum Artificial Light Silences Fireflies – Artificial light, especially bright amber, suppresses courtship. “we should focus on minimizing the time that lights are on and how bright they are.” – News Story
March, 2021 – Light Pollution Drives Increased Risk of West Nile Virus – Even low levels of artificial light at night increase the risk of transmission of the virus.
March, 2021 – Superoxide is Promoted by Sucrose and Affects Amplitude of Circadian Rhythms in the Evening – Both light and sugars affect the biological clock of plants. – News Story
March 10, 2020 – Artificial Lighting Impacts to Salmon in WRIA 8 Briefing Memo – Artificial light is impacting the survival of juvenile salmon.
January, 2020 – Australian Light Pollution Guidelines for Wildlife This detailed document describes best lighting practices.
July 30, 2018 – Waters under Artificial Lights: Does Light Pollution Matter for Aquatic Primary Producers? – ALAN and LED light negatively impacts periphyton.
July 30, 2018 – Waters under Artificial Lights: Does Light Pollution Matter for Aquatic Primary Producers? – ALAN negatively impacts periphyton.
November, 2017 – Artificially lit surface of Earth at night increasing in radiance and extent – This study uses satellite data to show that light pollution has increased due to the use of LED lights.
April, 2015 – Artificial Light at Night and the Predator-Prey Dynamics of Juvenile Atlantic Salmon – Even tiny amounts of artificial light affect salmon.
May 29, 2014 – Potential Biological and Ecological Effects of Flickering Artificial Light – Explains how the visual system of different creatures have a rate at which they capture images. Electric light interferes with this system, causing perceived flicker.