{"id":4271,"date":"2016-06-11T19:26:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T11:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/11\/light-pollution-blots-out-the-milky-way-for-one-third-of-humanity-2\/"},"modified":"2016-06-11T19:26:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T11:26:56","slug":"light-pollution-blots-out-the-milky-way-for-one-third-of-humanity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/11\/light-pollution-blots-out-the-milky-way-for-one-third-of-humanity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Light pollution blots out the Milky Way for one-third of humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f112926%2fmilkyway\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/EQ7PSAjM4UoTVJl6722VdbFRbT0=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F112926%2Fmilkyway.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Light+pollution+blots+out+the+Milky+Way+for+one-third+of+humanity&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F10%2Fatlas-of-light-pollution-milky-way%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F10%2Fatlas-of-light-pollution-milky-way%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>People around the world are losing the night sky.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/2\/6\/e1600377\">new atlas of light pollution<\/a> detailed in the journal <i>Science Advances<\/i> on Friday, more than 80% of the people on Earth<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u00a0live under skies polluted by artificial light.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>About 99% of people in the United States and Europe live with some degree of light pollution each night, the study found.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/02\/21\/light-pollution\/\">Cloudy nights now make cities brighter instead of darker<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;There is a cultural loss&#8221; when people can&#8217;t see the night sky,\u00a0Fabio Falchi, co-author of the new atlas, told <i>Mashable <\/i>in an interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For most of human history, people have been able to look up around the world and see the clouds of the Milky Way glowing above them, but now, one-third of the world&#8217;s population is unable to see our galaxy&#8217;s arms stretching out in the night.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/10\/atlas-of-light-pollution-milky-way\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/milky-way\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Milky Way<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/light-pollution\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Light Pollution<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/space\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Space<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/science\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Science<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">World<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/QYOr3qK7RJk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People around the world are losing the night sky.\u00a0 According to a new atlas of light pollution detailed in the journal Science Advances on Friday, more than 80% of the people on Earth\u00a0live under skies polluted by artificial light.\u00a0 About &hellip; 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