anthropogenic light in the night environment, caused by excess or misdirected lighting
Light pollution is excessive or poorly directed artificial lighting that brightens the night sky and surrounding environment. It matters because it disrupts natural darkness that many organisms, ecosystems, and human activities depend on.
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Light pollution over Melbourne, Australia
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).