chambers of commerce — and an airport that links people and products to the global marketplace. - Sam A. Williams, President, Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce

In May 2012, Hartsfield-Jackson opened a new $1.4 billion international terminal. The new terminal dramatically speeds up international arrivals and departures and eliminates the former baggage-recheck procedure. The new terminal has its own access to Interstate Highway 75, and with Hartsfield-Jackson a mere seven miles (11 km) away from the downtown metropolitan area, you can get off the plane and be at your meeting in minutes, not hours. Domestic travelers can take advantage of the MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority) train station located within the terminal.pollution. The radiometer isn't sensitive to blue light — the colour put out by many LED lights — so Kyba expected to find a decrease in light detected.

It's not just a problem of the west... we're really seeing it all over the world. - John Barentine , International Dark-Sky Association

What he found surprised him.

"What I had expected to see was that in wealthy places countries — the United States, countries with a lot of lighting, Italy — cities were going to be changing to LED and that would make them look darker," Kyba said. "But it turns out the United States stayed flat, and other countries like Germany became brighter. That means that the increase is actually even larger than what we report here.

"Somewhere else, there's new light."

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