Be the solution to light pollution

The digital billboard versus the dark sky

“Children are going to grow up without ever seeing the Milky Way, and we think that’s a shame, to mess it up,” say opponents of the first digital billboard in a small town.

Be the solution to light pollution

GUEST COMMENTARY: Now is a good time to evaluate your outdoor lighting because April 21-28 is International Dark-Sky Week.

Harkers Island to shimmer during Crystal Coast Star Party

Cape Lookout National Seashore is a certified International Dark Sky Park. Photo: Alex Gu/Crystal Coast Stargazers This year’s Crystal Coast Star Party and celebration of International Dark Sky Week is set for this weekend on Harkers Island. The Cape Lookout National Seashore, Core Sound Waterfowl Museum and Heritage Center and the Crystal Coast Stargazers are hosting the two-day event that includes stargazing, children’s activities and a specia…

The spread of modern forms of lighting is one of the greatest achievements of the modern world, but it is also the source of increasingly serious environmental and health problems. Light pollution – the unnatural illumination of the night sky – has now become a global phenomenon, which not only obscures the view of the sky, but also disrupts the functioning of ecological systems. Both the animal world and the human body react sensitively to chan…