‘Energy saving’ LED bulbs could be harming the world’s health, experts warn

They were supposed to help us all save the world, but energy-saving LED bulbs might instead be driving us towards an environmental crisis.

The LED bulbs are driving a huge increase in light pollution around the world, and it’s having an impact on human health.

Research published in Science Advances, based on satellite data, shows that artificially lit space has grown 2.2% per year from 2012 to 2016.

Light pollution

Night-time lights disrupt human body clocks and can raise the risk of cancer and depression, and can also kill animals by disorienting them.

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Chris Kyba, a physicist at the German Research Center for Geosciences said, ‘We’ll light something that we didn’t light before, like a bicycle path though a park or a section of highway leading outside of town that in the past wasn’t lit,.

‘And so all of those new uses of light offset, to some extent, the savings that you had.’’

Experts warn that the year-on-year increases in lighting are ‘unsustainable’.