Editing Light pollution (section)

=== East Asia ===
[[Light pollution in Hong Kong]] was declared the 'worst on the planet' in March 2013.<ref>[http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1194996/light-pollution-hong-kong-worst-planet South China Morning Post] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112033924/http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1194996/light-pollution-hong-kong-worst-planet |date=2020-11-12 }}. 2013-20-3. Retrieved 2013-6-4</ref>

In June 2016, it was estimated that one third of the world's population could no longer see the Milky Way, including 80% of Americans and 60% of Europeans. [[Singapore]] was found to be the most light-polluted country in the world.<ref name="limitednight">{{Cite news|url=http://www.pressherald.com/2016/06/11/light-pollution-limiting-night-sky-views/|first=Brady|last=Dennis|date=June 11, 2016|access-date=June 12, 2016|title=Light pollution limiting night-sky views|publisher=Portland Press Herald, via Washington Post|archive-date=April 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200425115725/https://www.pressherald.com/2016/06/11/light-pollution-limiting-night-sky-views/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="NWA">{{Cite journal|last1=Falchi|first1=Fabio|last2=Cinzano|first2=Pierantonio|last3=Duriscoe|first3=Dan|last4=Kyba|first4=Christopher C. M.|last5=Elvidge|first5=Christopher D.|last6=Baugh|first6=Kimberly|last7=Portnov|first7=Boris A.|last8=Rybnikova|first8=Nataliya A.|last9=Furgoni|first9=Riccardo|date=2016-06-01|title=The new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness|journal=Science Advances |volume=2|issue=6|pages=e1600377|doi=10.1126/sciadv.1600377|issn=2375-2548|pmid=27386582|pmc=4928945|arxiv = 1609.01041 |bibcode = 2016SciA....2E0377F }}</ref>

Over the past 21 years, China's provincial capital cities have seen a major increase in light pollution, with hotspots along the eastern coastline region.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Jiang |first1=Wei |last2=He |first2=Guojin |last3=Long |first3=Tengfei |last4=Wang |first4=Chen |last5=Ni |first5=Yuan |last6=Ma |first6=Ruiqi |date=2017-02-06 |title=Assessing Light Pollution in China Based on Nighttime Light Imagery |journal=Remote Sensing |language=en |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=135 |doi=10.3390/rs9020135 |bibcode=2017RemS....9..135J |issn=2072-4292|doi-access=free }}</ref>