🌆🌱 City lights stretch the seasons
New research shows that artificial light at night (ALAN) has a stronger impact than temperature on extending plant growing seasons in cities – especially by delaying the end of the season.
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Artificial light at night outweighs temperature in lengthening urban growing seasons - Nature Cities
Cities are becoming hotter and brighter. Using satellite data on 428 Northern Hemisphere cities, this study found that artifical night lights outweighed hotter temperatures in lengthening urban growin...