Nights on Earth are getting brighter with the spread of human light pollution, reducing humankind’s visibility of the cosmos. But the brightening night is also messing with glow-worms, spunky insects ...

Professor of Zoology (Evolution, Behaviour and Environment), University of Sussex The invention of electric light has extended our lives deeper into the night: street lamps help us travel more safely ...

Fourth of July fireworks are spectacular…and loud…but nature produces a quiet summer spectacle of its own in the light show of fireflies. Who as a child has not ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — After the sun went down in ...

It’s the last day of June and I’m standing under the overhang on my back deck protected from the last drips of a rainstorm. It’s past nine o’clock but not quite dark yet. But the yard is starting to ...

Visit Indy, Lafayette, and New Harmony to learn about our state insect, the Say’s Firefly. The firefly. The lightning bug. The romance of early summer in Indiana has always been a twinkling glow of ...

Unlicensed tour guides are being put on notice for taking visitors to an environmentally sensitive attraction on the Gold Coast hinterland without permits. Glow-worms — or bioluminescent larvae — ...

From glowing mushrooms deep in forests to radiant corals beneath the ocean, nature has its own spectacular light show. This magical glow, known as bioluminescence or phosphorescence, is found in ...