CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- More than one-third of the world's population can no longer see the Milky Way because of man-made lights.
Among those missing out on Milky Way views: nearly 80 percent of North Americans and 60 percent of Europeans.
These are the findings of a new global atlas of light pollution, published Friday.
According to the scientific report, 83 percent of Earthlings now live beneath light-polluted skies.
Tiny Singapore, for example, is the most light-polluted country; it never offers a true night sky. Kuwait and Qatar are close runners-up. On the opposite end of the spectrum are Chad and Madagascar.
