Darkness News
UK Dark Sky Festival Brings in Cash
May 11, 2022 - Yorkshire Dales NP
£200,000 (247,884 USD) in income for local business estimated after a dark sky festival at Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors National Parks. Tourism office estimates 5,000 attended the February event.
Read MoreGPS Data Shows the Lengths Some Birds Are Going to to Avoid ALAN
May 10, 2022 - Global News
A team at the University of Manitoba has found that whip-poor-wills will take large detours to not encounter light at night.
Read MoreFairfax, VA Moves Ahead on Dark Sky Plans
May 9, 2022 - Fairfax County Times
County is moving ahead with bylaws that limit the directionality of outdoor lighting. These will only apply to new installations, however.
Read MoreConference Recap: ROLAN 22
May 7, 2022 - Restoring Darkness Staff
The Responsible Outdoor Light at Night Conference was a two-day virtual event hosted by the Society for Light and Lighting, the International Association of Lighting Designers, the International Dark Sky Association, the Illuminating Engineering Society, Illume, and the Institution of Lighting Professionals. While conceived as an event for European experts to share their particular understanding on the issue of dark skies, the setbacks of the pandemic and the power of web conferencing has led to creating a multi-continent event with researchers, conservationists, and professionals from the EU, Australia and North America.
Read MoreA New Light Pollution Measurement Tool: Drones
May 6, 2022 - Remote Sensing
A group of researchers in Italy have found that unmanned aerial vehicles have a number of applications in checking brightness levels on city streets.
Read MorePredicting Bird Strikes With Radar and Machine Learning
May 5, 2022 - Science
Ornithologists at Cornell University have combined weather radar data and reports of migratory bird deaths to predict how many deaths will happen this spring and fall migration seasons and where they will happen.
Read MoreSea Turtle Nesting Season Has Begun
May 4, 2022 - Sun Englewood
Nesting and laying for sea turtles has started earlier than usual this year. Lighting ordinances will begin rolling out county by county.
Read MoreCircadian Disruption Also Disrupts Appetite
May 3, 2022 - Nutrients
Researchers at the Oregon Health & Science University have found that insufficient sleep and shiftwork changes the perception of hunger, actual appetite, and even food preference.
Read MoreCity of Blanco Declared a Dark Sky Community
May 2, 2022 - International Dark Sky Association
The International Dark Sky Association has recognized the south Texan town for its effort in reducing light waste. Local activist began work with city officials on the program in 2007.
Read MoreALAN’s Harms Reach Under the Sea
April 29, 2022 - Geographical
1.9 million square kilometers of coastal water surface is under the effect man-made light according to the Plymouth Marine Laboratory.
Read MoreNew Lighting on I-90 Ruins Campground
April 28, 2022 - ABC News
Evergreen Lake Park, a three hundred spot campground in Conneaut, north-east Ohio will most likely lose business this season after highway lighting upgrades bathe the full ground in bright light.
Read MoreKaikoura, NZ Plans Dark Sky Reserve
April 27, 2022 - Stuff
A new task force formed in cooperation with Heritage New Zealand, The National Department of Conservation and Environment Canterbury aims for IDA recognition for the region of the South Island.
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