Author: staff@jalopnik.com (Aakash Badree)

Silvia Dubois/Shutterstock A quaint neighborhood north of Copenhagen, Denmark has adopted a radical tweak to its nighttime streetscape — red streetlights in select areas somewhat than the standard white streetlights. Within the municipality of Gladsaxe, officials have been replacing traditional streetlights with red-spectrum LEDs. This variation is rooted in real science and reflects a deeper shift in how cities may eventually consider environmentalism of their infrastructure. Historically, most street lighting schemes equated brightness with safety — using white light to maximise visibility for drivers and pedestrians. Those self same light wavelengths are increasingly recognized as harmful to nocturnal wildlife, particularly…