43°29'S 147°08'E - Meet me at the lighthouse
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43°29'S 147°08'E - Meet me at the lighthouse

by Vytas Huth, Landscape Ecology, University of Rostock / Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Rostock / Müncheberg, Germany

Light pollution is an environmental hazard we often overlook. When I had the chance to view the Southern Hemisphere's night sky with only the Antarctic Ocean in front of me I realized how much we have already lost in the Northern Hemisphere and Europe. It almost seems like the night goes extinct.

Winner in the EGU Photo Competition 2019