Light Pollution Subject: Environment Section: Pollution Context: Ladakh to have India’s first ‘Dark Sky Reserve’ to promote astronomy tourism Concept: What is a Dark Sky Reserve? A Dark Sky Reserve is public or private land with a distinguished nocturnal environment and starry nights that has been developed responsibly to prevent light pollution. According […]

    Light Pollution Subject – Environment Context – light pollution disorients ecosystems. Concept – Light pollution is an unwanted consequence of outdoor lighting and usually occurs due to excessive and inappropriate artificial light. There are five overlapping components of light pollution: Urban sky glow, light trespass, glare, uplight and clutter. Urban sky glow refers […]

    Light pollution Subject: Environment Context: Globally, nights are becoming ever brighter. Increasing urbanisation and the installation of new streetlights, security floodlights and outdoor ornamental lighting all contribute to growing light pollution. Context: Dung beetles mechanism of dung pile They are found across southern Africa, India, collect dung from various animals, fashioning it into […]