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News, events, research, citizen science campaigns and results of the PLAN-B project.
PLAN-B Meets with Gdańsk City Council’s Climate, Environment and Ecology Committee
On 27 October 2026, Gdańsk University of Technology participated in a meeting of the Climate, Environment and Ecology Committee of the Gdańsk City Council, dedicated to mitigating light and noise pollution in urban environments. As part of the PLAN-B project, Dr Paweł...
Shedding Light on Urban Sustainability: How PLAN-B Supports Zaragoza’s Path as European Green Capital 2028
On October 8, 2026, the European Commission officially designated Zaragoza as European Green Capital 2028 at an awards ceremony held in Guimarães, Portugal. Selected ahead of fellow European finalists Oporto, Aalborg, Bielsko-Biała, and Košice, Zaragoza earned top...
The Hidden Double Threat: How Light and Noise Pollution Disrupt Terrestrial Wildlife (New PLAN-B Review)
We live on a planet that is brighter and louder than ever before. While artificial light at night (ALAN) and anthropogenic noise have enabled modern human society, they have also fundamentally altered the natural sensory environment that wildlife evolved to rely on...
Water, Seas and Landscapes – An Event at the EU Science Booth
Last September 23 our scientific coordinator Yana Yakushina presented the PLAN-B Project and AquaPLAN sister projects at the EU Science Booth during the CBD COP17 Armenia, sharing a short presentation about our projects and distributed printed materials, including...
Mapping Zaragoza’s Night: Interim Results from Our Citizen Science Light Pollution Campaign
How bright are our city streets at night, and what is the color quality of the artificial light surrounding us? Between 16 September and 22 October 2026, 16 dedicated citizen volunteers took to the streets of Zaragoza and its surrounding area (up to 30 km) equipped...
A Morning at ESAC Mapping Coordinates to ISS Photos
On October 3, ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Villanueva de la Cañada (Spain) opened its doors with a programme guiding visitors alongside astronomers through the mysteries of black holes, exoplanets, and the edges of the universe. We brought something...
Listening to Wildlife: PLAN-B Presents Advances on Noise Pollution at Forum Acusticum 2026 (Graz)
Anthropogenic noise pollution is a growing threat to terrestrial ecosystems, but how do animals actually perceive sound? To address this critical question, researchers from the European PLAN-B project participated in Forum Acusticum 2026, held from September 8 to 11...
Shining a Light on Night Skies: PLAN-B Launches its Zaragoza Community of Practice with the Agrupación Astronómica Aragonesa
Bringing Science to the Streets of Zaragoza As part of PLAN-B's ongoing mission to understand and mitigate the impacts of artificial light at night (ALAN) on terrestrial biodiversity, our Spanish pilot in Zaragoza recently reached an exciting milestone. In close...
Mapping the Night: How Citizen Scientists Are Measuring Light Pollution in Zaragoza (Spain) with Portable Luxometers and Open-Red.es
Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) is increasingly recognized as a pervasive environmental stressor that fragments nocturnal habitats, disrupts species behaviors, and alters terrestrial ecosystems across Europe. To understand where light pollution transitions from urban...
Mapping Brazil’s Nightscapes: New Artificial Light at Night Module Launched on MapBiomas Platform
We are thrilled to share a major international milestone in the study and monitoring of light pollution. MapBiomas, a pioneering open and collaborative platform that transforms satellite data into long-term information on environmental and land-use changes, has...
PLAN-B, present in the CIE Webinar “Lighting the Way: Finding Balance Between Safety, Beauty, and the Night Sky”
Our colleagues Karolina Zielińska-Dąbkowska (Gdansk Tech) and Mike Wood (Saldford Univesrity) shared the first and preliminary outcomes of our project work in the event that CIE hosted, a special webinar on 15 May 2026 entitled “Lighting the Way: Finding Balance...
Lost At Night mobilises around fifty participants in a PLAN-B citizen science workshop
The online event made it possible to georeference 2,500 control points in night-time images of Earth taken from the International Space Station. The European project PLAN-B held an online workshop on 21 May dedicated to Lost At Night, the citizen science app that...