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Hello, welcome to the naked scientist.

This is the program that brings you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology and medicine.

I'm Chris Smith.

This week, let there be light, but not too much of it.

We'll be discussing the pollution of the night skies and what we can do about it.

We're going to be focusing our attention on the much overlooked problem that's light pollution.

When you see images of some of the world's largest metropolis is lit up at night, you'd be forgiven

for being struck by the beauty of the illumination

sprawling across the landscape. Most people are. But as one scientist puts it, this is

the equivalent of admiring the beauty of the rainbow colors that gasoline

produces in water and not recognising it as chemical pollution.

So just as we accept that greenhouse gases or construction site noise are harmful effects that we are introducing into the environment, it's

time to change our thinking on all that light that's spilling out from our built environments.

Our producer James Titco reports.

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