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News, events, research, citizen science campaigns and results of the PLAN-B project.
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...
21/05/2026. Online workshop of the Lost At Night app
On 21 May at 12:00h (CET), PLAN-B will be hosting an online workshop of Lost at Night, the citizen science tool that enables the georeferencing of night-time images of Earth captured by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). This workshop will...
Report on light pollution in Belgium
In December 2025, a report (in Dutch) on light pollution was published (https://publicaties.vlaanderen.be/view-file/80205), prepared by a consultancy firm commissioned by the Department of Environment of the Flemish Region. The title of the report is “Vlaanderen...
Light Pollution workshop in COP15 (Brazil)
On 20 March 2026, PLAN-B Project organised a stakeholder workshop in Brazil, bringing together experts from federal and regional government bodies, NGOs, academia, a local zoo, national park representatives, and students. The aim was clear: to highlight the urgent...
PLAN-B in the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS)
The 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) will take place from 23 to 29 March 2026 at the Bosque Expo in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. PLAN-B Will be present...
The PLAN-B review of light and noise pollution impacts on terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services
This PLAN-B report collates and evaluates some of the available evidence for light and noise pollution impacts on terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services. The review demonstrates that: (i) both light and noise pollution impact terrestrial wildlife; (ii)...
PLAN-B Reaches its equator
Launched in January 2024, we are now in February 2026, and just gathered for our 6th General Assembly in Gdańsk. The past two years have been intense and productive. Many results are already visible, particularly our policy work and light pollution mapping, while...
Europe at night from space
Europe shines brightly at night, as seen in this mosaic created from over 7000 pictures taken by astronauts on the International Space Station. This is the first nighttime mosaic of Europe in colour ever produced with calibrated space images. The composition...