The BBC announced last Friday that a group of researchers have found a new form of light pollution. Which is quite a shock to me, as I was unaware there was more than one type of light, but, you know what they say. ‘You learn something new everyday’.
The news that ‘polarised’ light can also affect the lifestyles of wildlife (and no, they haven’t all moved to an area of upper class Oxford to get away from it all) has come as a shock to researchers and environmentalists across the UK. The main forms of this light pollution are from roads, glass buildings and water.
Not everybody seems to think it is a bad idea, in fact, some have already suggested using the light as a method of culling troublesome insects. Dr Robertson, one of the Co-Authors for the study said
“You may be able to create massive polarised light traps to crash bark beetle populations."
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