LightAware is compiling a selection of articles on issues of light and health from newspapers, magazines and specialist publications in the UK.
| June 14, 2018 | Halt Blue-Rich White Light Pollution | 38 Degrees Please reinstate the All Parliamentary Lighting Group and urgently create a National Light Policy which properly addresses the harmful effects of modern lighting technology on humans, wildlife, road safety and sky glow. Read More > |
| April 30, 2018 | Halogen and CFLs to be banned in Europe | LUX DRAFT European regulations will see the effective banning of both tungsten halogen and compact fluorescent as light sources by 2020. Read More > |
| April 29, 2018 | EU rule could leave theatres dark | The Guardian The president of the Association of Lighting Directors warns that a new directive could make all existing equipment obsolete. Read More > |
| April 27, 2018 | Study links LED streetlights to breast and prostate cancer | LUX BLUE LIGHT from LED street lights is linked to a ‘significant increase' in the risk of breast and prostate cancer, new research has concluded. Read More > |
| April 26, 2018 | New LED streetlights may double cancer risk, new research warns | The Telegraph Britain’s new generation of street lights risk dramatically increasing rates of breast and prostate cancer, according to a new study. Read More > |
| April 22, 2018 | New LED street lights are cheaper and greener but not everybody is happy | The Chester Chronicle The future is bright but it won’t be orange as old sodium lamps make way for LED lights across Cheshire West. New energy efficient council street lights are saving taxpayers’ money and the earth’s scarce resources but have generated more than 200 complaints. Read More > |
| April 11, 2018 | Diabetes, weight problems and even cancer! Terrifying new research into light pollution reveals why it’s time to see the LIGHT on the blight that harms us all | Mail Online Growing number of experts suggest artificial lights contribute to modern illness. Phone screens, streetlamps and car lights may be linked to diabetes and cancer. Scientist Steven Lockley, from Boston, Massachusetts, says our biology suffers. He said: 'We work and socialise when it’s dark but light after dusk is unnatural'. Read More > |
| April 10, 2018 | The future’s orange: City considers amber street lights | LUX Your Independent Guide to Lighting The city of Dunedin, the second largest on the south island of New Zealand, is exploring the possibility of installing amber LED lighting which will look similar to the current low-pressure sodium lighting. Read More > |
| April 4, 2018 | Street light flicker is new hazard, says watchdog | LUX Your Independent Guide to Lighting FLICKER FROM LED street lights could be becoming a health hazard, the UK government’s official health watchdog for England has warned. Read More > |
| April 3, 2018 | New led streetlights could damage eyesight and disrupt sleep warns Public Health England | The Independent New streetlights installed on British roads could harm people’s eyesight and disrupt their sleep, Public Health England (PHE) has warned. Read More > |