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Artificial light at night (ALAN) affects biodiversity conservation through its impacts on spatio-temporal distribution patterns of species, in particu…...

After spending $1 million on retrofitting 1,750 lights around Grand Canyon National Park, the world’s most famous wilderness is ready to spearhead the movement to preserve natural nighttime darkness.

Look to the night sky in Singapore, and you won’t see many stars. The light pollution from artificial lights burning 24/7 across the modern city invades the dark of night. Singapore’s progress in the past 50 years has been widely documented.

This publication is a compilation of important findings of experts worldwide in the area of light pollution. The information was gathered under the umbrella of the Cosmic Light programme, organized by IAU during the International Year of Light 2015. The goal of this brochure is to raise the profile of recent advancements in our understanding of light pollution, in particular regarding the use of LEDs, to support the astronomy community and increase public awareness of light pollution research. You can download this brochure as a high resolution pdf or as a medium resolution pdf. Credit: IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach

Earth's nights are getting brighter, creating an environmental nuisance that kills our wildlife, costs taxpayers and makes it increasingly difficult to see and study the stars.

NDMC has taken the new initiative to combat with air pollution and flagged off an anti-smog gun campaign. - Delhi Street Lights Will Now Feature Pollution Monitors, CCTV & WiFi To Combat With Air Pollution

There has been some concern over how the bridge could impact juvenile salmon. That is due to the potential lights for the bridge.

Illumination degradation, also known as photo pollution, is caused by excessive ambient light and is a byproduct of population and industry. It is just one of the numerous types of pollutants on the planet, together with microplastics, gas emissions, and wastewater.

International Dark-Sky Week runs from April 19 to 26, 2020. You can get involved by joining the Globe at Night project, which asks citizen scientists to measure the darkness of the sky near them.

by Chasing Stars To achieve International Dark Sky Reserve status all those responsible for lighting (local authorities, highway departments, businesses and individual residents) are required to ensure that light pollution (light escaping sideways and upwards) is reduced to a minimum.

Life on Earth is largely organized by the rhythm of light and darkness. For billions of years, our planet’s rotation around the sun divided time into day and night. The Earth’s orbital journey and tilt around the axis determined the hours of daylight throughout the seasons.

Making outdoor lighting more efficient doesn't reduce light pollution—it encourages people to use more light...

In our over-lit cities, lighting designers are fighting back on behalf of darkness and night—not to mention public space and urban vitality.

Protecting the Dark Sky Assets of Mayo was hosted by the Friends of Mayo Dark Skies and addressed the threat caused by light pollution to the Mayo Dark Sky Park and how we can protect this asset.

New York without light pollution is a gorgeous place. That’s exactly what the Skyglow project wanted to illustrate ahead of the upcoming Dark Sky Week, which encourages people to turn off their lights.

Light pollution eliminates much of the night sky, and with harmful effect. Have you ever seen the Milky Way? The very galaxy we are a part of? I have. But I had to go to Uyuni, Bolivia, to see it with the naked eye. Light pollution eliminates so much of our night sky it’s easy to forget we’re a part of a galaxy, and a universe, that is so much greater than ourselves.

The Great Sand Dunes and other national parks are trying to set themselves up as preserves of darkness by obtaining official "dark-sky" designations. But should federal parks be the last place you can see the celestial neighborhood?