Light Pollution

Measurements of Local Sources of Particulates with a Portable Monitor along the Coast of an Insular City

“…There is only one station in the city that records air quality and specifically that of PM 10 (for traffic, as it is located nearby a commercial street). It is worrying that there is a lack of data for several time periods and especially in severe cases of local PM pollution [15,[55][56][57]. The annual averages for PM 10 and the number of excesses in each station on the island for the period 2010-2015 as recorded by the air quality monitoring network in Cyprus were published in the 2018 official report, and it is clear that there are exceedances of both the annual marginal value of 40 µg/m 3 for the PM 10 set in the relevant legislation, as well as the allowable number of excesses set at 35 excesses per year; 157 excesses were noted at the traffic station in 2012 in Limassol [15,55].…”

“…The sea sprays are close to the PM concentrations of a coastal city. The problem is compounded by the interactions between PMs and the photochemical processes in the Mediterranean area [56,57]. More rarely, jet streams are naturally affecting the area by carrying forest fire components; both this phenomenon and forest fire events are accelerated in recent years due to the rapid climate changes.…”

City Light or Star Bright: A Review of Urban Light Pollution, Impacts, and Planning Implications

“…Arguably, sufficient scientific scholarship exists on the presence, extent, and sources of LP, and practical knowledge has grown on possible actions to minimize adverse impacts. Still, as noted above, advocacy communities struggle to affect broader consciousness (Falchi 2019;Gallaway 2010). There are many reasons for this.…”

Species‐ and sex‐dependent changes in body size between 1892 and 2017, and recent biochemical signatures in rural and urban populations of two ground beetle species

“…The human demand for land, mostly for settlements and agriculture, is increasing globally (Antrop, 2004; Bairoch & Goertz, 1986). In urban areas, exhaust gases from industry and traffic produce pollution (Fenger, 1999), artificial night lighting leads to an imbalance between day and night (Falchi, 2019), and construction works conduce fragmentation and loss of habitats (Liu et al, 2016). The increasing proportion of artificial surfaces, for example for buildings and roads, is influencing microclimatic conditions, resulting in increasing temperatures of 1–5°C in cities compared to undeveloped surrounding areas (Kalnay & Cai, 2003).…”