“The thought of light traveling billions of years from distant galaxies only to be washed out in the last billionth of a second by the glow of the nearest strip mall depresses me no end.” Sönke Johnson, Ecologist at Duke University Are you appreciating the Milky Way these winter evenings? Beyond your dark-accustomed eyes, you […]
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Cannabis-Related Lights Polluting SoHum Skies
Editor’s note: This story first appeared on www.kymkemp.com and is reposted here with permission. Once again spring brings light to the hills of the Emerald Counties — large industrial lights that flood valleys, glow into neighbors’ windows and possibly confuse wildlife, disrupting natural cycles. Rural communities complain that greenhouses constructed specifically for growing marijuana bring unwanted […]