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Light Pollution

Light pollution is the excessive artificial light that degrades environmental quality and is linked to air pollution from fossil fuel use. Major causes include urban areas, outdoor lighting, and industrial activities, which disrupt natural rhythms in both humans and wildlife. Solutions involve reducing unnecessary lighting, using energy-efficient bulbs, and being mindful of light usage at night.

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Light Pollution

Light pollution is the excessive artificial light that degrades environmental quality and is linked to air pollution from fossil fuel use. Major causes include urban areas, outdoor lighting, and industrial activities, which disrupt natural rhythms in both humans and wildlife. Solutions involve reducing unnecessary lighting, using energy-efficient bulbs, and being mindful of light usage at night.

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Light pollution

-What is : light pollution is unwanted or excessive artificial light. Like noise pollution, light pollution is a
form of waste energy that can cause adverse effects and degrade environmental quality. Moreover,
because light (transmitted as electromagnetic waves) is typically generated by electricity, which itself is
usually generated by the combustion of fossil fuels, it can be said that there is a connection between
light pollution and air pollution (from fossil-fueled power plant emissions). Control of light pollution
therefore will help to conserve fuel (and money) and reduce air pollution as well as mitigate the more
immediate problems caused by excessive light. Although light pollution may not appear to be as harmful
to public health and welfare as pollution of water resources or the atmosphere, it is an environmental
quality issue of no small significance.

-Causes of light pollution:

+Cities: When people first went to space, it became dramatically evident how much humans were
altering the night sky: Cities are easily viewable from the International Space Station (ISS) at night.
Decades on, astronauts on the ISS have observed the light pollution growing as cities sprawl ever larger.

Cities account for most light pollution since they have the most unshielded, improperly colored lights,
sending light upward into the sky rather than downward for human safety.

+ Outdoor lights: From unshielded pathway lights and streetlights to illuminated signs, most light at
night is wasted, spilling up into the air instead of down at the ground where it’s needed for safety and
wayfinding.

+ Factories and industrial: Warehouse distribution hubs, gas and oil production, and more.

+ Houses and apartments

-Impacts of light pollution:

+Effect the life of animals, artificial light can wreak havoc on natural body rhythms in both humans and
animals. Nocturnal light interrupts sleep and confuses the circadian rhythm, twenty-four-hour clock that
guides day and night activities and affects physiological processes in nearly all living organisms.

+Cause vision problem

-Methods to solve light pollutions:

+ Turn Off Lights When Not in Use

+ Use Fewer Lights When Inside

+ Keep the Blinds and Drapes Closed at Night

+ Use white light low-energy LED lamps.

+ Only switch on outdoor lights when absolutely necessary.

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