From eso.org
World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject
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On December 24th, AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for environmental impact assessment. This complex threatens the pristine skies above ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the darkest and...
#eso #chile #Paranal #science #Astrodon #darkskies #pollution #Environment #megaproject #observatories
16h ago
From springer.com
Re-thinking Property and Pollution: Conserving the Night Sky as Natural Commons
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Chile’s 1980 Constitution stands out globally for instituting strong private property rights over many things—including water, mineral concessions, education, and health services—with the result that access to basic human needs is at the mercy of...
#chile #commons #darkskies #indigenous #lightpollution
6h ago
Totality of Impact! - A Podcast Shedding the Light Only Where Needed
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This month! We look at the Olympic's opening ceremony which featured a spectacular light show at the Eiffel Tower. We look at a student study that examined the impact of artificial grow lighting on stadium pitches. And SpaceX’s plan to deploy 7500 Gen2 Starlink satellites was approved by the US...
on Sep 5