Halaman iki diwaca kanthi mesin lan bisa uga ngandhut cacat. Bantuan kanggo ningkatake Basa Inggris
Kacamatan iki dumunung ing Kabupatèn Luwu.
Red Initiative

Lambang

Kajaba iku, ing jaman biyèn, sapa wae bisa ndeleng Milky Way. Nanging saiki ora bakal ana bocah kang bisa ndeleng Milky Way, kajaba kita ngilangi masalah iki.

For hundreds of thousands of years, every human being who looked up on a clear night saw the same thing: thousands of stars and the pale river of the Milky Way. Dhèwèké uga gawé kalender, navigasi, agama lan sains. Ing jaman biyèn, ing papan iki ana omah kang digawé saka kayu. Nanging, nalika ana masalah lingkungan, iku bisa dadi salah siji saka faktor-faktor sing bisa nyebabake masalah iki.

Langit wengi ing angka

According to the world atlas of artificial sky brightness, 80 percent of the world’s people, and 99 percent of people in the United States and Europe, live under light-polluted skies. One in three people on Earth can no longer see the Milky Way from where they live. And it is getting worse: tens of thousands of citizen scientists counting stars found that the night sky brightened by an average of 9.6 percent a year between 2011 and 2022, which doubles the brightness in less than eight years.

1 in 3people cannot see the Milky Way from home (Falchi et al., 2016)
9.6%yearly brightening of the night sky, 2011 to 2022 (Kyba et al., 2023)
up to 988 millionbirds killed by collisions with buildings each year in the US alone, many drawn by lights (Loss et al., 2014)

Kabar apik

Nanging, gas iki ora bisa digawé kanthi cara alami. Ing mangsa panas, lampu-lampu lan lampu-lampu gantung uga digunakaké. Solusi punika murah, saged dipun-ginakaken ing toko hardware, lan ugi saged ngginakaken listrik kanthi kirang. Ing sapérangan wewengkon, kados ta ing pulo Jawa, dipunginakaken minangka bahan baku kanggo ngèlmu kimia.

Saliyané iku, ana uga sing diarani racun kang ora bisa diubaraké.

Wong-wong kang digambar ing ngisor galaksi Milky Way.
Under a truly dark sky the Milky Way casts a glow of its own.

Apa sing Light Initiative nindakake

  • Nyathet polusi cahya lan efeké ing basa kang prasaja: deleng apa polusi cahya.
  • Nunjukaken kadospundi cara ngresiki, kaliyan panduan ingkang praktis kanggé omah, bisnis lan kutha: tingali lighting outdoors wisely.
  • Dhèwèké uga dadi guru ing sekolah. Bebas platform sinau ruang wiwitan kaliyan langit ing inggil sampeyan.
  • Supports local action, kaya ta sore langit peteng, ngitung bintang lan ngobrol karo dewan, diorganisasi déning sukarelawan liwat contribution board.

Apa langitmu peteng?

The Peta polusi cahya déning Jurij Stare nyèwèkaké cahya langit buatan ing ngendi wae ing donya, dumadi saka data satelit. Proyèk sains warga Globe at Night ngidini sapa wae bisa ngukur langit dhewe tanpa luwih saka mata, lan nambahake jumlah sampeyan menyang rekor donya.

Carane sampeyan bisa nulungi

  • Count your stars. Njupuk pérangan ing Globe at Night sawetara kali saben taun; observasimu dadi data.
  • Fix your own lights first: shield them, point them down, warm them, dim them, lan put them on timers or motion sensors.
  • Iki tegesé, ora ana sing bisa digawé tanpa gawéan. Ing jaman saiki, basa iki wis ora bisa digunakaké.
  • Write to your council. Ask for a lighting policy with full shielding, warm colour temperatures of 3000 K or lower, dimming after midnight, and dark-sky protection for parks.
  • Atur bisnis kanggo ngresiki tandha-tandha lan lampu-lampu ing parkiran sawise ditutup.
  • Dhèwèké dadi bintang tamu ing acara iki. Teleskop punika saged dipunginakaken kanggé ngèlmu astronomi lan statistik. Miwiti siji liwat contribution board.

Sumber-sumber lan maca luwih lanjut