In Europe, they found a 6.5 per cent increase in brightness per year matched the data; in North America, it’s 10.4 per cent. The culprit, of course, is rapidly growing light pollution despite ...

As urban areas across the U.S. expand, many cities are trying to reduce their environmental impact while promoting sustainability, and Newsweek has plotted the greenest of them on a map. The election ...

Good luck with that. With light pollution getting worse with every passing year, most people in North America now have zero chance of ever seeing the Milky Way unless they make a trip to a dark sky.

Some researchers estimate that North America experiences a 10% increase ... of stars they see on their fingers. According to light pollution maps, viewing many celestial objects with the naked ...