Latest Light pollution Stories

SATELLITE BEACH, Fla., Oct. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lighting Science Group Corporation (LSG) (Pink Sheets: LSCG), a global leader in LED (light emitting diode) lighting products, introduces its new line of LED roadway luminaires. The new PROLIFIC Series Roadway Luminaires have substantially increased light efficacy when compared to traditional lighting technologies such as high intensity discharge (HID) and significantly better light efficacy when compared to currently available LED...

SARASOTA, Fla., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sunovia Energy Technologies, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SUNV) is pleased to announce that it has achieved six mounting heights spacing with its proprietary Cobra Head LED lighting product line. The six mounting heights achievement is unprecedented, and allows Sunovia to immediately begin replacing roadway fixtures with its new high-efficiency LED fixtures without the cost of installing additional light poles. Sunovia will also install...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Strategic Telemetry and XUS Corporation announce the first electrical lighting and management system (ELMS) to offer adaptive light level control for LED roadway lighting. Compliant with Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) standard NTCIP 1213, this technology offers dynamic remote control and monitoring of lighting, power metering and ground-fault detection safety equipment. Jim Frazer, Strategic Telemetry's COO states, "Roadway lighting...

AMHERST, NS, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ - A home-grown Nova Scotia company continues to shine brightly with its LED-based street lighting fixtures. The province, through NSBI, is supporting LED Roadway Lighting's continued growth with a $6-million equity investment. "LED Roadway Lighting has grown a solid business in Nova Scotia and now has an opportunity to become a world-leading provider of innovative, energy-efficient LED lighting," said Percy Paris, Minister of Economic and Rural...

Light pollution compromises the ability of astronomers everywhere to see the stars clearly, which has prompted the International Astronomical Union to fight for the public's "right to starlight."Founded in 1919, the union is a collection of professional astronomers, at the Ph.D. level and beyond, who are active in professional research and education in astronomy. Their mission is to promote and safeguard the science of astronomy in all its aspects through international...

SARASOTA, Fla., July 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces that EvoLucia Inc. and Fairview, Texas have joined the LED City(r) initiative, an international program that promotes the deployment of energy-efficient LED lighting. The newly constructed, four-lane Fairview Parkway, designed specifically to be lit with LEDs, features 82 LED street lights from EvoLucia, a division of Sunovia Energy Technologies, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board:...

SARASOTA, Fla., July 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sunovia Energy Technologies, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SUNV) announced today that it has launched the first in a new line of EvoLucia(TM) brand LED cobra head products that drastically reduce both energy consumption and carbon emissions, and also lasts up to three times longer than traditional HID cobra head style lighting fixtures that are installed along roadways today. In addition, Sunovia's new LED cobra head fixture contains no...

Slow-flying, woodland bats "” which tend to be at greater risk from extinction than their speedier kin "” really don't like the light, according to a study published online on June 18th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. Lesser horseshoe bats will stray from their usual flight routes to steer clear of the artificial glow from lights that are similar to everyday street lights, the new report shows.The echolocation bats depend on to navigate their way in the dark doesn't help...

GLOBE at night, the international star-counting program, starts on Monday, 16 March, 2009, a key activity during this International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009). Running between 16 and 28 March, it is a digital effort to obtain precise measurements of urban dark skies around the world using sky-quality meters.How dark is your sky? Do you lose counts of the stars in your nightscape or are you lucky to spot even one? The reason city skies are dull compared to beautiful dark skies in the...

A survey suggests that a growing number of people are unable to see the night sky because of glare from poorly designed outdoor lights in built up areas.In an attempt to study these conditions, the Campaign to Protect Rural England and the British Astronomical Association had some 1,829 members of the UK public counting stars for the study.During the study, they were asked to focus on the constellation of Orion, one of the most easily identified.There are about 50 of Orion's stars that...