{"id":731,"date":"2020-01-31T15:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/science\/?p=731"},"modified":"2020-01-31T15:05:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T15:05:07","slug":"first-major-scientific-study-on-light-pollution-in-the-maltese-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/science\/2020\/01\/31\/first-major-scientific-study-on-light-pollution-in-the-maltese-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"First Major Scientific Study on Light Pollution in the Maltese Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"731\" class=\"elementor elementor-731\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6e74ac1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6e74ac1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7ffa7da\" data-id=\"7ffa7da\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ca7f68 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1ca7f68\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The very first major scientific study of light pollution in Malta has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Environmental Management. \u00a0A special webpage accompanying this study may be accessed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nightskymalta.info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clicking here<\/a>\u00a0or visiting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nightskymalta.info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.nightskymalta.info<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The very first major scientific study of light pollution in Malta has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Environmental Management. \u00a0A special webpage accompanying this study may be accessed by clicking here\u00a0or visiting\u00a0www.nightskymalta.info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.2 - 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