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Human activities like deforestation (sự phá rừng, phát quang) and fossil fuel use (sử dụng nhiên liệu hóa thạch) are major drivers of biodiversity loss. But what about seemingly innocuous (không độc, không có hại; vô thưởng vô phạt) activities like turning the lights on at night? While most people who live in cities or suburbs are used to the effects of artificial lights (ánh sáng nhân tạo), many wild animals (động vật hoang dã) that live alongside us are not so good at coping with this widespread form of pollution (ô nhiễm).

Ecologists in Finland recently published a study on the effects of artificial lights on mate attraction in a bioluminescent beetle species called the common glow-worm of Europe (Lampyris noctiluca). Female glow-worms use their bioluminescent abdomen to attract male mates, but this reproductive strategy only works at night, when the glowing signal is readily apparent. Artificial lights are making the night-time landscape much less dark in many places, which could reduce the glow-worms’ ability to find mates.

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