Light pollution offers new global measure of coral reef health
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 17:21
in Earth & Climate
We've all seen the satellite images of Earth at night - the bright blobs and shining webs that tell the story of humanity's endless sprawl. These pictures are no longer just symbols of human impact, however, but can be used to objectively measure it, according to a study in the December 2008 issue of Geocarto International, a peer-reviewed journal on geoscience and remote sensing...