Bright lights, big city, big light pollution

Christmas lights burning up the night sky are a seasonal phenomenon, but ecologists have long warned about the everyday issues of light pollution. Our partners at Deutsche Welle took a walking tour of the problem in Cologne, Germany, for the program “Living Planet” with journalist Kathleen Schuster.

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