Chitchat little red dot made it again to yet another WORLD #!

[Sammyboy RSS Feed]

An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:

http://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore-new...polluter-world


SO BRIGHT: A satellite picture of Singapore (above) taken on March 17.

PHOTOS: ARIFFIN JAMAR, COMPLUTENSE UNIVERSITY OF MADRID
Singapore's the biggest light polluter in the world

S'pore has the most light pollution in the world - so where are our brightest and darkest places?
Jun 19, 2016 6:00am
By CATHERINE ROBERT

Children in Singapore will probably never get to experience the beauty of the Milky Way, thanks to a little-known environmental disturbance - light pollution.

Singapore was named the country with the worst level of light pollution in the world - with a pollution level of 100 per cent - in a recently published Science Advances study.

The study, The New World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness, said that Singapore's use of artificial light exceeds the level of light pollution tolerable per capita.

"The possibility of seeing the Milky Way from home is precluded to all of Singapore," the study said.

The study's authors, who are from the Light Pollution Science and Technology Institute in northern Italy, based the extent of light pollution primarily on how brightly lit the streets of a country are and the percentage of population exposed to the artificial brightness.


....


Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com.