Light pollution does more than ruin the night sky...

[Mike]

B%$£@&%$s!!! 

[Rick]

Shared Planet - Insects and Street Lights

Just listened to a programme on Radio 4 about research on this. It'll be available on BBC iPlayer sometime soon, here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04l0tg8

[RobertM]

http://www.anl.bayern.de/publikationen/anliegen/additional_data/an37200notizen_2015_kulturdenkmaeler_life_bericht_engl.pdf

Robert

[Rick]

Light pollution dampens urban robins' song

The song and behaviour of the UK's favourite bird is being affected by light and noise pollution.

That is according to research from Southampton University, which revealed how robins are affected by night-time lighting and road noise in a city park.

They measured how much the quality of robin territory was affected by its proximity to a lit path and a road.

More: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38317255