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Is Artificial Light Poisoning the Planet?

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That is the title of Adam Gopnik’s article in the Feberuary 27, 2023 issue of the New Yorker Magazine.

Aacording to Sweedish ecologist Johan Eklof, most churches in southwest Sweden had bat colonies back in the nineteen-eighties, and now most of them don’t. Light pollution, his research suggests, has been a major culprit. READ MORE

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