See below for article groupings from Light Pollution News Podcast episodes. Listen every month to stay up to date on the current research and news as how artificial light at night impacts our environment.

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From Radio Aero Ecology:

• The Impact of Artificial Lights on Insects | International Dark Sky Week with Dr Avalon Owens, DarkSky International.
• Light pollution is a driver of insect declines, Biological Conservation.
• City moths may have evolved smaller wings due to light pollution, James Dinnean, NewScientist.
• Artificial light at night (ALAN) pollution alters bat lunar chronobiology: insights from broad-scale long-term acoustic monitoring, Ecological Processes.
• In the Spotlight: Bat Activity Shifts in Response to Intense Lighting of a Large Railway Construction Site, Sustainability.
• Light and Light Signals Regulate Growth and Development in Woody Plants, Forestry.
• We Need Bird-Safe Buildings. The Movement is Growing., Connie Sanchez, Audubon.
• Revisiting 2017, Part 1: What Did Birds Do During a Total Eclipse? Observations from eBird and Radar on August 21, 2017, Benjamin Van Doren, Birdcast.
• Revisiting 2017, Part 2: What Did Birds & Insects Do During the 2017 Solar Eclipse?, Cecilia Nilsson, Birdcast.

From Sonification:

• Effects of artificial light and latitude on the dawn foraging activity of Great Tits (Parus major) during winter in northern Europe, Ornis Norvegica.
• Light pooling, Daire Carroll & Jessica Harvey-Carroll, Oceanographic.
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• Foraging at night under artificial light: impacts on senescence and lifetime reproductive success for a diurnal insect, Animal Behavior.
• Blue Light Attracts More Spodoptera frugiperda Moths and Promotes Their Flight Speed, Insects.
• Artificial light changes visual perception by pollinators in a hawkmoth-plant interaction system, Urban Ecosystems.
• Wild mice in an urbanized world: Effects of light at night under natural and laboratory conditions in the single-striped grass mouse (Lemniscomys rosalia), Chronobiology International.
• The effect of artificial light at night on a nocturnal primate, Folia Primatologica.

From Ar Hyd Y Nos:

• Why flying insects gather at artificial light, Nature.
• Artificial light at night reduces earthworm activity but increases growth of invasive ragweed, BMC Ecology and Evolution.
• Artificial light at night affects the timing of roosting by Chimney Swifts, International Journal of Avian Science.
• Something weird is happening to these Alpine goats. Scientists say it’s an ominous sign., Benji Jones, Vox.
• Light exposure from LEDs is changing the composition of seaweed | ABC News, ABC.

From A Space for Celebration:

• It’s autumn everywhere except under this streetlight, Be Smart.
• When darkness disappears, Nadja Neumann, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries.
• Artificial night-time lighting and nutrient enrichment synergistically favour the growth of alien ornamental plant species over co-occurring native plants, Journal of Ecology.
• The Growth Response and Digestive Enzyme Activity of Juvenile African Catfish (Clarias gariepinus) Exposed to Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) Spectral, Jordan Journal of Biological Sciences.
• Artificial light at night affects fish passage rates in two small-sized Cypriniformes fish, Ecology of Freshwater.
• Artificial light at night impacts night-time activity but not day-time behaviour in a diurnal coral reef fish, Basic and Applied Ecology.
• Adult Chironomid (Chironomidae: Diptera) Positive Phototactic Behaviour—A Cue for Adult Population Management and Impact on Insect Biodiversity at Lake Trasimeno, Central Italy, Environments.
• Artificial light at night is a top predictor of bird migration stopover density, Nature Communications.

From Walking in a Freakily Large Planetarium:

• Mitigation measures for environmental protection, European Union.
• Far-reaching displacement effects of artificial light at night in a North American bat community, Global Ecology and Conservation.
• Artificial light affects foraging behavior of a synanthropic bat, Integrative Zoology.
• Artificial light at night alters predation on colour-polymorphic camouflaged prey, Basic and Applied Ecology.
• Bats as indicators of ecological resilience in a megacity, Urban Ecologies.
• Shining a light on duckweed: exploring the effects of artificial light at night (ALAN) on growth and pigmentation, Plant Biology.
• Evaluating the effects of moonlight on the vertical flight profiles of three western palaearctic swifts, Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

From VIP Session Under the Bridge:

• Artificial light at night: a global disruptor of the night-time environment, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
• Does artificial light at night alter moth community composition?, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
• Impacts of artificial light at night on the early life history of two ecosystem engineers, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
• Artificial light at night decreases plant diversity and performance in experimental grassland communities, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
• Artificial light at night (ALAN) causes shifts in soil communities and functions, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
• Long-term exposure to experimental light affects the ground-dwelling invertebrate community, independent of light spectra, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
• Belfast’s famous Starling murmuration could be back after light pollution reduced, Shauna Corr, BelfastLive.
• The influence of light on elasmobranch behavior and physiology: a review, Frontiers in Marine Science.
• Short-term night lighting disrupts lipid and glucose metabolism in Zebra Finches: Implication for urban stopover birds, Avian Research.
• Comparative transcriptome analysis of eyes reveals the adaptive mechanism of mantis shrimp (oratosquilla oratoria) induced by a dark environment, Genetica.
• Effects of light pollution on Bluegill foraging behavior, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.

From Asphalt Dreams:

• A Casino on the River Is No Better Than on the Lake, Some Chicago Environmentalists Say, Patty Wetli, WTTW.
• New York’s plan to save birds from crashing into buildings: lights out, Aliya Uteuova, the Guardian.
• NEXT BIG STEPS FOR LIGHTS OUT LEGISLATION IN NEW YORK CITY, Suzanne Charle, NYC Audubon.
• Phenotypic signatures of urbanization? Resident, but not migratory, songbird eye size varies with urban-associated light pollution levels, Global Change Biology.
• Researchers want to see through the eyes of baby turtles, Benjamin Payne, NPR.
• Light pollution threatens coastal marine systems, ScienceMag.
• Daytime fishers, nighttime bobcats – wildlife changes when humans spread into the woods, David Brooks, Concord Monitor.
• The colour temperature and placement of LED lighting near rivers can reduce attraction of flying adult caddisflies, Freshwater Biology.
• Species-specific responses of mammal activity to exurbanization in New Hampshire, USA, Journal of Urban Ecology.
• How light pollution impacts the world around us | Witness Documentary, Al Jazeera.

From The Perma-Noon Super Highway:

• Here’s How you Go Birding in the Middle of the Night, Jacob Job, Scientific American.
• They Tap Into the Magical, Hidden Pulse of the Planet, but What is the Nighttime Bird Surveillance Network?, Jacob Job, Scientific American.
• Arch to dim lights for birds in September, Daniel Newman, STL Today.
• Lights Out, Texas! is helping keep the stars at night big and bright, Cole Baerlocher, Agrilife.
• For Two Backyard Bird Species, More Light Pollution Is Linked to Lower Survival, Laura Oleniacz, NC State.
• Detection rates of long-tailed bats (Chalinolobus tuberculatus) decline in the presence of artificial light, New Zealand Journal of Zoology.
• Light Pollution Is Causing Oyster Insomnia, Hannah Seo, Hakai Magazine.
• Light pollution alters the skeletal morphology of coral juveniles and impairs their light capture capacity, Marine Pollution Bulletin.
• Artificial light at night disrupts male dominance relationships and reproductive success in a model fish species, Science of the Total Environment.
• Influence of night-time light pollution on the photosynthesis and physiological characteristics of the urban plants Euonymus japonicus and Rosa hybrida, Ecological Processes.

From Sensory Depravation:

• Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) causes size-dependent effects on intertidal fish decision-making, Marine Pollution Bulletin.
• The effects of artificial light at night on the foraging activity of Japanese eels: implications of recreational fishing data, Environmental Biology of Fishes.
• Smaller Australian raptors have greater urban tolerance, Scientific Reports.
• From colony to fallout: Artificial lights pose risk to seabird fledglings far from their natal colonies, Conservation Science and Practice.
• Skyglow relieves a crepuscular bird from visual constraints on being active, Science of the Total Environment.
• Artificial light at night impairs inhibitory control in a wild songbird, Science of the Total Environment.

From Fireflies, Rise Up:

• Smart lighting to minimise light pollution and protect biodiversity
• Low estrogen may worsen the circadian effects of light pollution, Amy McDermott, PNAS
• Dim artificial light at night alters gene expression rhythms and growth in a key seagrass species (Posidonia oceanica), Nature
• Light pollution is taking the sparkle out of glow-worm mating, TheConversation
• Light pollution confuses a color-changing coastal woodlouse, new research shows, Phys.org