{"id":235096,"date":"2026-04-13T23:31:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/new-study-reveals-earth-is-getting-brighter-at-night-about-2-each-year"},"modified":"2026-04-13T23:31:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:31:31","slug":"new-study-reveals-earth-is-getting-brighter-at-night-about-2-each-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/new-study-reveals-earth-is-getting-brighter-at-night-about-2-each-year","title":{"rendered":"New Study Reveals Earth Is Getting Brighter at Night \u2014 About 2% Each Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-study-reveals-earth-is-getting-brighter-at-night-about-2-each-year.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Satellite observations reveal that global nighttime lighting is steadily rising, though the trend varies widely by region, with some areas brightening rapidly while others dim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite observations reveal that global nighttime lighting is steadily rising, though the trend varies widely by region, with some areas brightening rapidly while others dim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}