Light pollution—the needless shining of bright lights into the night sky—has robbed whole generations of the chance to see nature on its largest scale. It is estimated that as many as eighty ...
Light pollution and its trademark “skyglow” is getting worse. Much worse. It’s getting so serious that stars, beautiful open clusters and even distant galaxies in the night sky there were ...
there has been a slight increase in the incidence of 'light pollution' and 'significant pollution' in the emirate. An increase in the vehicular traffic in Dubai coupled with an expansion of ...
Prof Kelsey Johnson, an astronomer from the University of Virginia, who gave a TED talk about ways to solve the light pollution problem, told BBC News: "We waste tremendous resources on light that ...
Scientists say light pollution may be contributing to "worrying" declines in insects seen in recent decades. In a UK study, artificial street lights were found to disrupt the behaviour of ...