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• Is the 24 hour day killing off Life On Earth?

  
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  A few thoughts from Graham Cliff It is time that we should be focusing attention on the harm done by the 24 hour day. Perhaps we should be concerned about how sustainable is our collective future? Medical evidence for this harm, which is being caused to human health, by light at night , is mounting. We are seeing ...
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• New Songs : Light Pollution

  
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  We were turned on to Chicagos Light Pollution a few months back and have been keeping a close eye since. The band has sent us quite a few new songs recently, but here are two of my favorites. MP3 : Light Pollution - Oh, Ivory! MP3 : Light Pollution - Drunk Kids ...
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• Dark Sky Idol final round approaches

  
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  Down South, round Tekapo, they have some wonderfully dark skies and they want to keep it that way. The Starlight Reserve bid for UNESCO world Heritage status has made it through another round and is now one of 5 finalists: Tekapo Night Sky. Photo by tpokorny . The other sites included in the thematic study ...
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• American Medical Association Against Light Pollution

  
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  This is an exciting time for light pollution control advocates. Everywhere you look, word is getting out that light pollution is a danger to our health and needs to be dealt with. The latest group to get onboard is the American Medical Association. What follows is a recent Resolution #516 on the need to curtail ...
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• Adirondack Family Activities: ADK Leonid Meteor Shower

  
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  My husband and I were up in the pre-dawn morning with probably half the world to essentially watch a fiery burning of debris enter the atmosphere. To then describe to my child a scientific reason for getting out of bed took a bit of research and a chat with an expert. In layman’s terms (that is all I’ve got) the ...
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• Open your eyes to darker skies

  
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  The night skies above our cities and towns - even our villages - glow a bright sodium orange; the most brilliant stars our galaxy has to offer glow feebly through this colourful canopy. Galloway Forest Park has recently been honoured with the status of the UKs first Dark Sky Park. Perhaps it is time for us to dim ...
  2 weeks ago

• Polluted Night Sky

  
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  The city sky again is overcast with clouds Appearing as it did the night before Colored to a diffuse gray-rose hue By the night lights of a city still asleep Image via Wikipedia I wonder how necessary are these city lights What exactly do we need to see by them A lighted bell tower in the distance Would I ...
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• Reaching for the Stars…

  
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  …at the University of Helsinki earlier this week when people had a chance to visit the 175 years old observatory. You foreigners might now think that Finnish astronomy is very primitive but observations are no longer done from this site. There is too much light pollution to allow scientific work. What used to be at ...
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• Delray Lighting Inc

  
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  Delray Lighting Fixtures *Energy Efficient Lamps and Ballasts *Dimming Energy/Managements *Short Supply Line Clean Manufacturing Process
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• South Pole Offers Prime Astronomy Real Estate

  
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  Source Image credit: Patrick Cullis, National Science Foundation “The photo, captured above the new elevated station at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in July 2009, is a 20-minute exposure revealing the southern celestial axis — the white cloudy streak is the Milky Way. Only at the North and South Poles ...
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