Darkness News
Night Shift Work Linked with Memory Issues
September 6, 2023 - Plos One
A new study of nearly 50,000 middle-aged night shift workers showed that 79% of participants are experiencing memory-related issues.
Read MoreLack of Sleep Reduces the Benefits of Exercise
September 5, 2023 - Medical News Today
A ten-year activity study from the UK has found that in elderly subjects sleeping fewer than six hours per night […]
Read MoreMont Tremblant National Park Named a Dark Sky Park
September 5, 2023 - CTV Montreal
The park, located in the Laurentian Mountains in Quebec is the 6th DarkSky-certified space in Canada.
Read MoreVolusia County Has Best Turtle Season Yet
August 31, 2023 - Spectrum News 9
Ponce Inlet, Florida was host to 40,000 sea turtle hatchlings this year. Local herpetologists credit changes to lighting over the […]
Read MoreNavajo County, AZ Bans ‘Light Trespass’
August 30, 2023 - White Mountain Independent
While the county has declared that they aren’t attempting a full ‘dark sky’ program like nearby Payson or Flagstaff, the […]
Read MoreMinami-Rokuroshi, Fukui is Asia’s First Urban Dark Sky Place
August 28, 2023 - DarkSky International
The fourth dark sky place in Japan is a mountainside near Ono City. Ono partnered with Panasonic’s lighting division and […]
Read MoreCities Are Leading Bird Migration Safety Efforts
August 25, 2023 - Informed Infrastructure
Yale Law and the American Bird Conservancy have published Building Safer Cities for Birds: How Cities Are Leading the Way […]
Read MoreFudan University Adds New Metric in Parallel to Melanopic Illuminance
August 24, 2023 - Science Direct
Researchers at the Institute of Future Lighting have found that manipulating cyanopic illuminance (light in color ranges that affect the […]
Read MoreBlue-Blocking Lenses Not Helpful for Sleep Quality or Eye Health
August 23, 2023 - Cochrane Library
A new study from the Cochrane Library has run 17 randomized controlled trials of “blue-filtering” eyewear and determined that the […]
Read MoreLight Pollution Linked with Deaths of Migratory Birds
August 22, 2023 - NC State U News
A study of data collected by the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center over twenty years has found that the gray catbird […]
Read MoreDecorative Lighting Related to Major Holidays Are Visible From Space
August 21, 2023 - People and Nature
New research by a team from the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) and the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales […]
Read MoreUnder Canvas Lake Power Recognized by DarkSky
August 18, 2023 - KSL
Luxury tent resort is the first lodging recognized by the international conservation group.
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