After 17 years underground, an enormous brood of loud, molting cicadas is emerging this spring in parts of the southern and northeastern United States. Cicadas are loud but harmless — they don’t bite, ...

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Light pollution disrupts circadian rhythms and ecosystems worldwide – but for plants, dependent on light for photosynthesis, its effects could be profound. Now scientists writing in Frontiers in Plant ...

The steady glow from streetlights is changing the texture of tree leaves, making them less appetizing to insects, according to new research from China. Light pollution and fog combining to blur a New ...