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1/17/2020 Dark Skies Paonia Update... At the Town Council meeting on Tuesday January 14th, Town Council voted in favor of shielded, 2700 Kelvin streetlights ...

Westcliff and Silver Cliff Dark Skies of the Wet Mountain Valley Dark Skies of the Wet Mountain Valley was founded in 1999 with the primary purpose of limiti...

Western Slope Skies - Bringing Back the Night By Jeff Reynolds • Oct 5, 2018 Western Slope Skies TweetShareGoogle+Email 📷 Credit NASA Earth ...

Pollinators: switch street lights off at midnight to help moths and nocturnal wildlife Pollinators: switch street lights off at midnight to help moths and no...

By Jeff Reynolds • Oct 5, 2018 Western Slope Skies TweetShareGoogle+Email 📷 Credit NASA Earth Observatory All over the world, people are lo...

Paonia residents will have to wait a bit to find out which lights the town will choose to install after a delay by DMEA. Dark Skies of Paonia continues to w...

20 October 2019 The night sky above parts of Wiltshire, Dorset, Hampshire and Somerset has been designated an international dark sky reserve. Cranborne Chase...

National Geographic partnered with the International Dark-Sky Association to provide families with a true "dark sky" observatory experience, free from the...

📷 5/23/2016 What is Light Pollution?Effects of Light PollutionState LegislationState Laws to Reduce Light Pollution Contact Jennifer Schultz What is Light P...

By Jeff Reynolds • Oct 5, 2018 Western Slope Skies TweetShareGoogle+Email 📷 Credit NASA Earth Observatory All over the world, people are lo...

Five years of advanced satellite images show that there is more artificial light at night across the globe, and that light at night is getting brighter. Th...

Photo by Michael Menefee Birds that migrate or hunt at night navigate by moonlight and starlight. Artificial light can cause them to wander off course and tow...

Artificial light at night doesn’t just affect our ability to see the stars — it also impacts complex ecological interactions and disease transmission facto...

In 2017, drastic declines of insects were reported by a team of scientists in Germany. The research indicated that the biomass of flying insects decreased mo...

by Callum Macgregor Postdoctoral research associate, University of York Conservation is often a conflict between the demands of development and a desire to ...

Dark Skies of the Wet Mountain Valley was founded in 1999 with the primary purpose of limiting light pollution of the night sky in the towns of Westcliffe an...

NORWOOD, Colorado – Feb. 21, 2019 After almost 3 years of hard work on the part of a small team of volunteers in Norwood, Colorado, the International Dark-...