Light Pollution News

December 2025: Dark Turns.


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 This episode's guests:

  • Dr. Amardeep Dugar, Lighting Designer.
  • Dani Robertson, Author / Dark Sky Officer.
  • Stephane Picard, CEO of Cliff Valley Astronomy.

Bill's News Picks:

  • Remote Welsh island with population of three people searching for new tenant family, BBC News
  • Headlight complaints abound, but glare-related crashes haven’t increased, Joe Young, IIHS
  • Spatio-Temporal Variation in Aerial Arthropod AbundanceRevealed by Weather Radars, Global Change Biology
  • Nocturnal flight call monitoring reveals in-flight behavioral alteration by avian migrants in response to artificial light at night, Biological Conservation
  • The Space Mirror Mirage: Physics, Economics, and the Glow of Investor Illusion, Charles Rotter, WattsUpWithThat.

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The path to sustainable starry night solutions begin with being a more informed you.

Light Pollution, once thought to be solely detrimental to astronomers, has proven to be an impactful issue across many disciplines of society including ecology, crime, technology, health, and much more!

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