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How Light Pollution Works

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The Effects of Artificial Light on Insect Pollination

There are about a billion birds a year that die from running into glass. In the US alone, we've lost 29% of our birds since the 1970s. A lot of insect species that pollinate and visit flowering plants at night can be greatly impacted by artificial light. And so that apparently, in turn, has a deep impact on the Neuroth object callback.

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