LightAware is compiling a selection of articles on issues of light and health from newspapers, magazines and specialist publications in the UK.
| October 20, 2020 | LED Streetlighting in the UK | 120 Councils have now responded to the LightAware’s Freedom of Information request for details of the changes to LED streetlighting, and the results have been analysed by the LightAware team. Read More > |
| December 17, 2019 | LightAware featured in UK Daily Express and Irish Daily Mirror | Now charity LightAware is claiming that modern lighting can lead to the social exclusion of light sensitive people Read More > |
| May 2, 2019 | Is your pocket-friendly and energy efficient LED light affecting your health? Yes! | Entertainment Times Studies have also reported that children are more vulnerable than adults to flicker-induced ill effects. Read More > |
| January 17, 2019 | Supporting health, wellbeing and performance of humans | Lighting Europe Human Centric Lighting supports health, well-being and performance of humans by combining visual, biological and emotional benefits of light. Read More > |
| 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 > |