The meeting on Promotion and Protection of the Night Sky, which will be held on the 13th and 14th of September on the Island of Capraia (Italy) under the title...

STARS4ALL project is developing a collective awareness platform – composed by Light Pollution Initiatives (LPIs) – to encourage citizens to care and preserve the natural darkness of European nightscapes. These...

"Gather-Around-Light" is a community in Berlin of people working in various sectors of the lighting industry. The group invited to the Archenhold  Sternwarte in Berlin to an evening to discuss...

Rome, with its knowledge of the skies, oriented many of its cities according to the position of the heavenly bodies, notably to sunsets and sunrises during the solstices. With this...

Cities at Night, the European project STARS4ALL initiative, is creating a 'Google maps' nocturnal version using pictures taken from space.   More than 17000 volunteers have classified, located and georeferenciated night...

Artificial light can affect trophic interactions between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. This is clear from an article published in the journal OIKOS under the title "Dietary changes in predators and...

The quality of the night sky is a natural heritage, as well as a valuable scientific, economic and cultural resource. The interest for its preservation grows every day with lots...

Our skies are getting brighter. A recent study found that our planet’s artificially lit outdoor area grew by about 2% each year between 2012 and 2016.   “Global growth in lighting at that kind...