"The study addresses the multifaceted challenge of managing greenhouse-related light pollution, which emerges as an unintended consequence of employing supplementary lighting to extend growing seasons and enhance crop yields."

https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/lgp-mrps/241

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"Our findings ... highlight the need for global policies directed towards the sustainable use of artificial lights to reduce or limit the outputs of artificial lights used in association with social festivities."

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pan3.10520

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The UK House of Lords Science and Technology Committee today published a report titled “The neglected pollutants: the effects of artificial light and noise on human health”.

It's an important step toward recognition of the same in the wider Government and, hopefully, doing something meaningful about the problem of #LightPollution.

HTML: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5803/ldselect/ldsctech/232/23202.htm

PDF: https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/40937/documents/199438/default/

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More communities around the world are interested in enacting their own outdoor lighting policies, but the ideas and concepts in them are often unfamiliar and confusing. Where should one begin? This month, we dig into the major sections of typical policies and look at what makes certain ones "good," "better," or "best."

https://www.darkskyconsulting.com/blog/goodbetterbest-outdoor-lighting-policies

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Local land-use and zoning ordinances are the major outdoor lighting policy tool in the U.S. The theory behind this law absolutely guts that notion. If this bill becomes law in #Florida it will make outdoor lighting ordinances effectively unenforceable.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/03/24/local-ordinance-regulation-lawsuit-business-preemption-arbitrary-unreasonable/

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