The Arctic polar night remains one of the last undisturbed dark environments on the planet. But as the climate changes and human activities increase in the Arctic, natural light sources — such as the ...

Scientists have shown that light pollution—especially light in the blue spectrum—can alter the behavior of fish after only a few nights, and have knock-on effects for their offspring. The team studied ...

At night on any one of hundreds of coral reefs across the tropical Pacific, larval fish just below the sea surface are gambling on their chances of survival. Understanding how that works could help in ...

Jeffrey Shima receives funding from Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund. Erik Noonburg, a retired Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Florida Atlantic University, contributed to this ...