Daylight saving and circadian rhythms and killing wildlife on the roads
Crashing into the 'zone of wildlife'

“[With] daylight saving, we start shifting our cars and our daily routine more into the zone of animals, their sunset, sunrise period … suddenly there are cars when all the dusk choruses are happening."

"Species that would be of obvious concern would be kangaroos and wallabies, that are often quite active both in the morning and in the afternoon around dusk, so any increased traffic around the time when they’re most active can create potential issues with road accidents,” Deakin University wildlife ecology and conservation professor Euan Ritchie says."

"Cars – with their lights and noise, and the danger they pose – can affect insects, birds and wildlife." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/04/how-does-daylight-saving-time-affect-animals-australia-wildlife
#biodiversity #wildlife #cars #roads #DST #DaylightSaving #crashes #LightPollution #ArtificialLight #NoisePollution #RoadTrauma

Just… no, stop it. Enough for fuck sake! 🙄
#LightPollution #EnergyWastage

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/elephant-and-castle-skyline-plan-would-beam-lights-into-the-night-sky-88543/

An interesting new paper that is unique (as far as I know) in that it tries to “externalize” the economic impact of light pollution by comparing the spatial distribution of nighttime lights (‘NTL’) to land values. Unsurprisingly, the authors find that “the relationship between NTL and land values is nuanced and heterogenous conditional on the level of brightness and the type of land,” but that it has “a quadratic concave-downward effect on residential land values while a linear positive effect on commercial zonal values”.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/2150704X.2026.2650396

#LightPollution #Economics

The global dark-sky movement has hit a hardware ceiling. Shielding works, but it doesn't control how much light we generate. Adaptive lighting is an underutilized means of reducing light pollution. Can #AI encourage its uptake?

The "#LED Paradox" explains why cheap energy efficiency has led to over-illumination. We need to shift from hardware solutions to software and behavioral solutions. AI-driven predictive grids might finally remove the friction from adaptive lighting management.

Read more: https://www.darkskyconsulting.com/blog/ai-and-the-future-of-smart-lighting

#LightPollution #DarkSkies #SmartLighting

Cut the lights – and seven more ways to save Britain’s bats https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/27/cut-the-lights-and-seven-more-ways-to-save-britains-bats

#Britain #environment #wildlife #bats #lightpollution

You can't take the sky from me

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We'll raise our 'scopes again!

(If the telescope emoji in your platform is crap don't get salty: find us an artist and maybe this will turn into a design fit for a sticker or a tattoo. Weirder things have happened here.)

#Firefly #LightPollution

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116305912657254383

Europe turns the lights off to save the planet while tech bros want to eradicate the night with giant mirrors.

#lightpollution #night #energy #europe #tech #environment #pollution