The lights are going on all over India. H5N1 lot of them. If yous compare NASA's novel nighttime map of the world amongst the 2012 map yous tin encounter where inwards the world electrical lighting has grown as well as where it has fallen over the final 4 years. Republic of Republic of India stands out equally a province that has seen a huge growth inwards nighttime lights,
Two weeks agone NASA released a novel composite map showing the world at night. The as well as then called Black Marble map of the world is made upwards of the best cloud-free satellite images of each soil volume captured during 2016. If yous desire yous tin thought the novel Black Marble map on NASA's Worldview interactive map.
John Nelson has compared NASA's 2012 as well as 2016 Black Marble maps to encounter where inwards the world lights convey been going on as well as where they convey been going off. He has fifty-fifty created his ain map, Lights On & Lights Out, which highlights the locations to a greater extent than or less the world where at that topographic point convey been meaning changes inwards electrical lighting since 2012.
Nelson points out inwards the text accompanying the map that at that topographic point are many reasons why places mightiness demonstrate an growth or decrease inwards electrical lighting. The growth inwards Republic of Republic of India is due to the "massive electrification of northern Republic of Republic of India inwards recent years". Elsewhere reductions inwards nighttime lighting may hold out due (among other reasons) to attempts to trim back calorie-free pollution.
