Articles from June 2026

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Iowa engineers investigate links between LED blue light and health impacts

Friday, June 26, 2026
New research from the University of Iowa uses data from the TEMPO satellite mission to examine how blue light common in LEDs may disproportionately affect sleep patterns and health conditions of those in lower income areas. The findings, published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, were presented at a TEMPO DART conference in Iowa.
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Wildfires are reversing America’s progress on ozone pollution

Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Progress in reducing surface ozone pollution, the main ingredient in smog, but that progress is increasingly being overshadowed by a different and growing source of ozone pollution: wildfires, according to University of Iowa researchers Weizhi Deng and Jun Wang, and Meng Zhou of the University of Maryland.