Over 7 million square miles of coastal ocean are possibly affected by increasingly common nighttime lights.
that mapped out the areas of the ocean that are most affected by light pollution. It found that at 3.2 feet deep, over 7 million square miles of coastal ocean are exposed to biologically important ALAN.
“This study further emphasizes the importance of artificial light pollution as a stressor of coastal and marine ecosystems, with the impacts on various aspects of biodiversity only now being discovered and quantified,” Tim Smyth, a co-author and biogeochemist at Plymouth Marine Laboratory,The team paired their new data with a global dataset representing 2,135 coral spawning observations taken over the last 23 years.
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