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Light Pollution

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<p>Brent Pease, assistant professor in SIU Carbondale’s School of Forestry and Horticulture, displays a BirdWeather PUC (portable universe codec), a weatherproof device with microphones, Wi-Fi, GPS, environmental sensors and AI. Picture: Russell Bailey</p>

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The working day of some birds may be up to an hour longer than ‘normal’ due to artificial light
New research shows that light pollution caused birds to sing, on average, 50 minutes longer that they would were artificial lights absent. Birds in the brightest environments tended to begin singing up to 20 minutes earlier in the morning and continued doing so up to half an hour later in the evening
<p>Species with large eyes relative to their body size had the strongest response to artificial light. The American robin, Northern mocking bird and European goldfinch (pictured) all extended their day by more than average, scientists found.</p>

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Light pollution tricking urban birds into staying awake longer each day
<p>A stranded puffling on Newfoundland coast. Puffling strandings are a growing concern on either side of the Atlantic as they are likely to be run over by cars or become prey to predators. Image by Taylor Brown.</p>

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Richard Collins: Young puffins dangerously attracted to artificial light
Anja Murray: A lot more to see in the night skies when it's really dark

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Anja Murray: A lot more to see in the night skies when it's really dark
Skymatters: March is a good month to catch views of the planets Venus and Jupiter

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Skymatters: March is a good month to catch views of the planets Venus and Jupiter
 Irish Examiner View: We must save our starry, starry nights

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Irish Examiner View: We must save our starry, starry nights
Light pollution costs €300k annually
Light pollution costs €300k annually

Light pollution costs hundreds of thousands of euro each year, impacting environmental processes and affecting our health, an Irish physics expert claims.

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