Sentences with phrase «effects of light pollution»

«This was a huge undertaking,» said Thomas Davies, who studies the ecological effects of light pollution at Exeter University and was not involved with the study.

«If one city has a lot more airborne pollution than another,» Ward says, «that city will suffer the effects of light pollution on a much greater scale.»

These mobile tools help you become a citizen scientist, whether you're documenting wildlife or measuring the effects of light pollution

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Furthermore, the effects of clouds can greatly amplify even slight levels of light pollution.

The idea that night light could have broad knock - on effects on daytime pollinators is still speculation at this point, says ecologist Darren Evans of Newcastle University in England, who also studies light pollution and pollination.

The study is the first to give a global overview of all current plans to mine the seabed, in both national and international waters, and looks at the potential impacts including physical destruction of seabed habitats, creation of large underwater plumes of sediment and the effects of chemical, noise and light pollution arising from mining operations.

The study presented in the journal BioScience analyzed 276 published peer - reviewed articles that looked at the landscape effects of oil, natural gas, and wind production infrastructure worldwide, in order to compare their impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services — wildlife mortality, habitat loss and fragmentation, noise and light pollution, invasive species, and changes in carbon stocks and freshwater resources.

The study is primarily concerned with the effect of all this light pollution, but it also reflects energy consumption.

129 Furthermore, the fact that, in the context of applying European Union environmental legislation, certain matters contributing to the pollution of the air, sea or land territory of the Member States originate in an event which occurs partly outside that territory is not such as to call into question, in the light of the principles of customary international law capable of being relied upon in the main proceedings, the full applicability of European Union law in that territory (see to this effect, with regard to the application of competition law, Ahlström Osakeyhtiö and Others v Commission, paragraphs 15 to 18, and, with regard to hydrocarbons accidentally spilled beyond a Member State's territorial sea, Case C ‑ 188 / 07 Commune de Mesquer [2008] ECR I ‑ 4501, paragraphs 60 to 62).