New Map Reveals Disturbing Global Sky Trends: ‘The Findings Are Startling’

A recent Reddit post featuring a light pollution map of Europe highlights the increasing difficulty of finding truly dark skies, with most areas depicted in bright green and yellow, indicating significant light pollution levels. The map, which uses color coding to show varying brightness levels, demonstrates that the darkest regions are exceedingly rare. Primarily caused by outdoor artificial lighting, light pollution not only obscures stargazing but also disrupts sleep cycles in humans and wildlife, confuses nocturnal predators, and affects migratory patterns of animals. Organizations like DarkSky aim to combat this issue by promoting responsible lighting practices and recognizing over 200 International Dark Sky Places. Users express alarm at the map’s revelations, noting a stark absence of dark skies in much of Western Europe.

New Map Reveals Disturbing Global Sky Trends: ‘The Findings Are Startling’

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