Singapore's the biggest light polluter in the world!

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Singapore's the biggest light polluter in the world!

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http://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore-news/s ... uter-world
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 new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/ ... 00377.full

http://www.treehugger.com/natural-scien ... ution.html
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