#light pollution

[miyrumiyru]

Insane color moth!! These are reminded me of some kind of ice cream

Oriental Orange Banded Green Geometer Moth (Eucyclodes gavissima)

[onlytiktoks]

[mapsontheweb]

Fewer and fewer people have regular access to a truly dark night sky. Where to find the last pristine skies in the US?

[acti-veg]

“We normalise the abnormal, and accept the unacceptable. Remember that more than 80 per cent of people live under light polluted skies, and two-thirds of Europeans are immersed in noise equivalent to constant rainfall. Many people have no idea what true darkness or quiet feels like.

Within that inexperience, vicious cycles begin to spin. As we desecrate sensory environments, we become accustomed to the results. As we push the animals away, we get used to their absence. As the problems of sensory pollution grow, our willingness to address it subsides. How do we solve a problem that we don’t realise exists?”

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

[dailymanners]

Source

[ranidspace]

https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/

Use the link above, and click about where you are. what is your "bortle" number, aka, how light polluted is your area

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Voting ended onFeb 7, 2023

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[hoot-alex]

Reducing light pollution at night helps migrating birds. Turn off the lights for them!

[zegalba]

Light pollution and fog blur the New York City skyline.