A decade of satellite data reveals artificial light at night is growing by roughly 10% annually in brightness and extent — turning once-dark rural landscapes into permanent urban twilight and reshaping ecosystems from the ground up.
Globe at Night is the most widely used citizen science programme for measuring light pollution — over 300,000 observations from 180+ countries since 2006, and the direct data…
In July 2024, Øvre Pasvik National Park — 11,900 ha of boreal taiga at approximately 69°N in Finnmark, northeastern Norway — became Norway’s first IDA-certified International Dark Sky…
In February 2014, the International Dark-Sky Association designated Sternenpark Westhavelland — approximately 75,000 ha of wetland and fen in Brandenburg — as Germany’s first International Dark Sky Reserve….
