January 10, 2022 By Elizabeth Claire Alberts Mongabay
Researchers recently released the first global atlas that quantifies artificial light at night on underwater habitats.
New Atlas Illuminates Impact of Artificial Light in the Ocean at Night
Bright Lights and Dark Nights: The Challenge Facing Sea Turtles in the City
July 30, 2020 By Annemarie Mannion Hakai Magazine
Sea turtles became an unexpected passion for Jones, who now often wears sea turtle T-shirts or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle (TMNT) garb instead of his old Florida Gators shirts. (The TMNTs aren’t sea turtles, but Jones’s link to the superheroes is irresistible: the human vigilante who fought alongside them was also named Casey Jones.) He began searching for ways to help conserve the reptiles, which is how he learned about a pervasive and preventable risk to their well-being: light pollution. Artificial bright lights are a deadly hazard that can lead sea turtles astray. Jones had found his mission.