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• NY Times: Bright lights tied to less sleep and more anxiety in teenagers (July 13, 2020)
• TIME Magazine: Where Are the Fireflies Going? (Aug. 30, 2008)
• The Hidden TollThe earth's glowing waters can impact both ends of the marine food chain. From LD+A Magazine, IESNA, June 2019
• National Geographic Magazine: The End of Night
  Cover story of the November 2008 issue, this is a general interest level, background piece on light pollution.
• Wall Street Journal: It''s All About the Lighting
  Around the world, the night sky is vanishing in a fog of artificial light, which a coalition of naturalists, astronomers and medical researchers consider one of the fastest growing forms of pollution, with consequences for wildlife, people''s health -- and the human spirit. (The video that originally accompanied this article has apparently been removed.)
• BBC Radio show
  MP3 of a BBC radio show about light pollution.
• Susan Harder, guest on WBAI \Create Your Healthy Home\" radio show"
  January 2, 2007. The guest was Susan Harder of the DarkSky organization. The topic was light pollution. She was featured in an article in the New York Times on December 17, 2006 called "Tilting At Lampposts". Ms. Harder has gotten both Montauk and East Hampton to change the light fixtures on their lamposts to prevent lighting up the sky, save money and cut down on glare.
• Farmers Almanac: Light Pollution--Are You A Culprit?
  Are you culprit? Take this quiz and find out.
• Light-Cancer Connection (PDF)
  A Prevention Magazine article that summarizes various studies that point strongly to the connection between exposure to light at night and increased risks of breast and many other cancers. (May also be online at MSNBC here as a PDF file.)"
• Let There Be Light — Bring Back the Stars
  An article from The Hamptons View by Nancy Hyden Woodward about dark skies and what is being done in eastern Long Island to protect dark skies. (Originally at www.hamptonsview.com/detail.ihtml?id=212&apid=317&sid=1 which is now defunct.)
• Preservation Magazine - Beyond the Glare and the Blare
  Once, people could bathe in starlight and listen to snow fall. Now the quest to renew darkness and silence is growing. Cover story of Preservation Magazine, by Anne Matthews.
• Light Pollution Taking Toll on Wildlife
  An article from National Geographic about the effects of light pollution on wildlife.
• Giving Back The Night
  As of Aug. 21, 2003, all outdoor lighting must conform to Hailey, Idaho's new outdoor lighting ordinance. It's one of the best small town ordinances in the country. Story from the Idaho Mountain Express.
• Dr. Pauley pre-releases light pollution paper
  
• Deprived of Darkness The unnatural ecology of artificial light at night ​By Ben Harder originally published in Science News Online Week of April 20, 2002; Vol. 161, No. 16