Episode 83 News - The Darkness News Update September 26, 2023


Highlights from the darkness news are:

 – Charting New Harms of ALAN

 – Speakers from Under One Sky

 – Bird’s Eye Views Are Shrinking

 – Pandas Get Jet-Lag

 

 

Light at Night Will Kill You

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.08.23295231v1

 

Dim Light at Night Makes Alzheimer’s Worse

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11357-023-00932-0#Sec13

 

Reducing Light at Night Reduces Stress During Pregnancy

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-023-16655-y

 

IES Offers Nighttime Lighting Program

https://lightedmag.com/ies-offers-nighttime-lighting-program/

 

DSI’s Under One Sky Names Keynote Speakers

https://darksky.org/news/under-one-sky-2023-conference-keynotes-announced/

 

High temperatures are moving agricultural work in the NE to nighttime

https://www.pressherald.com/2023/09/11/extreme-heat-is-forcing-americas-farmers-to-go-nocturnal/

 

Light Pollution is Harming Marine Life

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aqc.4011

 

Urban, Non-migratory Songbirds Eyes Are Getting Smaller

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-urban-pollution-linked-smaller-eyes.html

 

Mouse Metabolism linked with seasonal lighting changes

https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(23)00300-5#secsectitle0075

 

Circadian Misalignment Leads to Changes in Panda Activity

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1188566/full

 

Fort Myers, Fl Has Worst Year for Turtles

https://www.fortmyersbeachtalk.com/2023/09/10/fort-myers-beach-faces-one-of-its-worst-years-for-sea-turtle-disorientations/

 

Ft Worth TX Tracks Bird Strikes

https://fortworthreport.org/2023/09/17/downtown-fort-worth-buildings-are-deadly-for-migrating-birds-researchers-are-keeping-track/

 

Hehuan Mountain Dark Sky park in Taiwan Might Lose Status after illuminated signs pump out too much light

https://twitter.com/taiwanplusnews/status/1704140789151080803

 

Man Seeks to Add Lighting Bylaws to Clayton, NC After Neighbor Adds 20+ Flood Lamps to Back Yard

https://restorationnewsmedia.com/articles/local-news-johnstonian/homeowner-says-he-lives-next-door-to-sports-complex/#google_vignette

 

Coconino County to Modernize Lighting Bylaws

https://fronterasdesk.org/content/1857662/coconino-county-seeks-public-input-modernize-dark-sky-ordinance

 

Boulder City, NV Council had a hands on with new lighting

https://bouldercityreview.com/news/council-meeting-has-show-and-tell-for-street-lighting-77549/

 

SpaceX Plans New Non-reflective Coating

https://driveteslacanada.ca/spacex/spacex-to-reduce-light-pollution-from-starlink-satellites-via-in-house-tech/