National Geographic Travelのインスタグラム(natgeotravel) - 2月2日 22時02分

Panorama by @babaktafreshi
The World at Night photography
Beauty or the Beast? Swipe left to see this 3-part nightscape of the Niagara Falls. The city on the Canadian side in Ontario is visible here, filled with high-rise hotels, casinos, and bright neon billboards. Massive floodlights shine to the sky with only a Batman logo missing. This attracts a lot of visitors but kills the natural night environment, critical to many species.
Known as Light Pollution, it’s mainly referred to the extra light we waste to the horizon/sky when not properly directed and shielded to the ground. It’s striking to know about 35% of our night lights (globally) is wasted to create skyglow. Only in the US it’s equal to over $3 billion dollars/year worth of energy! A recent study released by International Dark Sky Association (darksky.org) shows despite the change to LEDs the light waste (measured from space) is still increasing 2% per year as cities add more lights with the saved money. Also the shift to cheap white-blue LEDs is a very wrong decision that not only alters nature it affects our health by disturbing the sleep cycle. Human body and other species are not adapted to intense blue light at night. Explore more @babaktafreshi

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