HUMAN GENERATED RADIATION IS HARMING WILDLIFE
Oblivious to the natural pace of evolution which has miraculously birthed and sustained life for eons, the wireless industry stands poised to dictate where evolution will take us and when it will get us there. But Earth was not consulted. Wildlife is being decimated and the future is looking increasingly bleak.
In his magnum opus – Bees, Birds, and Humans – on Electrosmog’s Destructive Effects on Nature, Bio-scientist, Dr. Ulrich Warnke states:
The information-processing and function systems of today’s humans, plants and animals are bombarded with artificial magnetic, electric and electromagnetic fields from numerous mobile and telecommunications sources in a concentration and intensity as never before. The consequences of these developments put forth by their critics cannot be overlooked any longer. Bees and other insects are disappearing. Birds avoid certain regions and are disoriented in others. Humans suffer functional problems and other sicknesses. And the evidence that suggests some of these problems may be inheritable means we’re passing them on to the next generation.
Humans and all life on this planet depend on the natural world for sustenance.
Warnke continues:
What has also been known to science for many decades is that we as humans depend on this natural environment for many of our vital functions. Today, however, this natural information and functional system of humans, animals, and plants has been superimposed by an unprecedented dense and energetic mesh of artificial magnetic, electrical and electromagnetic fields, generated by numerous mobile radio and wireless communication technologies.
Increasing levels of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from our digital world – though imperceptible to humans – is wreaking havoc on the natural world. We do not yet know to what degree and in what ways this deluge of frequencies and modulations – carrying mega amounts of data through our atmosphere – is affecting each being on the planet. But what is increasingly clear is that wireless expansion is not sustainable.
Impediments to understanding the full impact of electromagnetic radiation on wildlife
There are major obstacles preventing us from understanding the full impacts of electromagnetic radiation on wildlife. In India, 2010, An Expert Committee to Study the possible Impacts of Communication Towers on Wildlife including Birds and Bees submitted a report and recommendations to the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. The Committee delineated four main reasons why environmental impacts from electromagnetic radiation are difficult to discern and quantify:
- Ubiquitous exposure to EMR radiation is a relatively new phenomenon
- EMR is invisible
- We have not had the time or means to track long-term impacts and lack standard protocols to study these
- There is a lack of data and no control group.
The report goes on to say that although there is ample evidence of impacts of EMR on human health, “these results cannot be extrapolated to reflect impacts on wildlife since the impact highly varies even within [the] same species depending on multiple factors such as body size, age, earthing, fat content in the body, objects in the immediate vicinity, and so on.”
Moreover, some animals respond to stimuli at far subtler levels than our measuring devices can discern thus adding further to our inability to understand the impacts of EMR on wildlife.
The Expert Committee recommended that until we have a better understanding, we should take a precautionary approach.
Unfortunately, industry and government have chosen a very different course – that of unleashing millions of new microwave emitting antennas and tens of thousands of new satellites in space to migrate every “thing”, event, point in time, and moment in space onto the internet to be analyzed, aggregated, monetized, stored in the Cloud, and then rained back into the world in the form of new platforms, gadgets, surveillance, and “conveniences” that will add yet more radiation to our already saturated world.
ADDENDUM – FOURTH WAVE ENVIRONMENTALISM FULLY EMBRACES BUSINESS
Environmental groups often join forces with industry to address environmental challenges. This is occurring now with the Fourth Wave of Environmentalism, where the wireless industry is embracing 5G and the wireless revolution without considering the adverse impacts on wildlife of this newest iteration of wireless technology.
Frank Krupp from the Environmental Defense Fund writes in a Wall Street Journal Opinion Piece:
“Market-based approaches and corporate partnerships are standard practice today….an emerging wave of environmental innovation is making these partnerships more productive, and their results more precisely measurable. Call it the Fourth Wave of environmental progress: Innovation that gives people new ways to solve environmental problems.”
Environmental groups are embracing the internet of things, satellites, sensors, smart cities and smart regions, facial recognition technology, block chain, and a very cozy relationship with industry. Yet by increasing exposure to wireless radiation we are contributing further to environmental problems, not solving them.
Fourth Wave Environmentalism Fully Embraces Business Mar. 20th, 2018 | Fred Krupp | WSJ
“Market-based approaches and corporate partnerships are standard practice today. Yet too many environmentalists still regard business as the enemy, and vice versa. That may finally be changing, because an emerging wave of environmental innovation is making these partnerships more productive, and their results more precisely measurable. Call it the Fourth Wave of environmental progress: Innovation that gives people new ways to solve environmental problems.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fourth-wave-environmentalism-fully-embraces-business-1521585072
This is the next wave of environmentalism Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
Think of the Fourth Wave as the first three waves – supercharged.
“The Fourth Wave is all about business, technology, financial and policy leaders, nonprofits, advocates and communities working in concert to amplify environmental solutions for maximum impact.”
https://www.edf.org/approach/fourth-wave?utm_source=bing&utm_campaign=edf_fourth-wave_pd_acq&utm_medium=cpc&utm_id=1521041787&msclkid=4dfb71830b89103bfef92a8ad3781638
EDF is going to space to help save our planet. What is an environmental organization doing building a satellite?
“The Fourth Wave of Environmental Innovation” Using Science, data and technology to empower people to take action.
Podcast to “turbocharge” EDF and other efforts to use satellites to “drive solutions to our biggest environmental challenges.”
https://www.edf.org/climate/space-technology-can-cut-climate-pollution-earth?addl_info=hero2
Welcome to the Fourth Wave: A new era of environmental progress Fred Krupp | Mar. 21st, 2018 | Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
From Satellites to Facial Recognition Technology, our environmental groups join our government in teaming up with industry…and once again, the public is left out-of-the-loop.
“World Resources Institute is using satellites to track Amazon deforestation on a website that can alert local authorities and the public to fires. Blockchain technology is being used to verify sustainability claims of tuna supply chains and manage energy trading across a solar-powered microgrid. The Nature Conservancy is even developing facial recognition technology for fish to help fishermen identify and track their catch.”
https://www.edf.org/blog/2018/03/21/welcome-fourth-wave-new-era-environmental-progress
How the Internet of Things Gives Our Environment a Voice May 16th, 2018 | Scott Amyx | Medium
“While IoT was originally adopted by the industrial and manufacturing sectors, we are now beginning to see broad applications in the realm of environmental measurement and sustainability. Rather than merely estimating the effects of a certain action, we can quantify that action down to the millisecond on a real-time, continuous basis. This, in turn, allows us to better understand diverse areas of the environment including air pollution, water, renewable energy and much more.” “As these air monitoring devices and sensors reach ubiquitous density, they will provide aggregate collective data around what’s happening in a city — eventually allowing for a street-by-street evaluation of air quality [and you!!]…Daryani’s system is not simply mechanical….his product layers cyber or intelligence on top of physical hardware that will not only remove particles, but also provide an incredible amount of data around the quality of air and stream that information to various organizations.”
https://medium.com/the-fourth-wave/how-the-internet-of-things-gives-our-environment-a-voice-5b3a0f38fe2b
FURTHER RESOURCES FOR WILDLIFE EFFECTS
Wireless Silent Spring Oct. 2018 | Dr. Cindy Russell MD | VP Community Health SCCMA
“IN THE WAR ON INSECTS: NATURE BECOMES SILENT Our ill-fated desire to control nature as well as our tendency to ignore our own complicity in its destruction for profit was the focus of a seminal 1962 book, ‘Silent Spring.’ This publication is widely credited with ushering in the modern environmental movement. Rachel Carson, a marine biologist, and author of ‘Silent Spring,’ was first a lover of nature and a poet. Through her astute observations of nature, careful documentation and gifted writing, she was able to bring attention to the devastating and long lasting effects of pesticides which continue to impact all wildlife and species, including humans.”
http://www.sccma-mcms.org/Portals/19/SilentSpringAticle_color_pr2.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0Of9cmpdDC19EDz5-u7wY0cZ-pB1kv-JZVheV5ipJ5cJVuPa2Tg_nPXtw
Please also see the recent Overview Report put out by EKLIPSE, a EU-funded organization dedicated to studying areas impacting the ecosystem and biodiversity and to provide answers to policy makers and other societal actors on biodiversity-related issues.
The impacts of artificial Electromagnetic Radiation on wildlife (flora and fauna). Current knowledge overview a background document to the web conference
http://www.eklipse-mechanism.eu/documents/15803/0/EMR-KnowledgeOverviewReport_FINAL_27042018.pdf/1326791c-f39f-453c-8115-0d1c9d0ec942
Proliferation of Wireless Radiation Emissions Accelerates New Silent Spring April 19th, 2018 | Global Union Against Radiation Deployment from Space (GUARDS)
http://www.stopglobalwifi.org/documents/EarthDayApril2018Final.pdf
Letter To Grand Teton National Park On Environmental Impacts Of Proposed Mobile Communications
Thirteen-page letter, replete with supporting references, that can serve as a valuable resource for efforts to oppose wireless expansion.
https://ehtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2019.04.10-Dr.-Devra-Davis-Comment-Submission-to-the-NPS.pdfReport for the United Nations
Report for the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) And International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Report detailing the exodus of species from the Mt. Nardi area of the Nightcap National Park World Heritage Area during a 15-year period (2000-2015.)
https://ehtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/Mt-Nardi-Wildlife-Report-to-UNESCO-FINAL.pdf
Science: Plant and Animal Electromagnetic Sensitivity
“Impending Disaster: Several studies are now suggesting an impending disaster for all wildlife from man-made electromagnetic pollution. Experts suggest that the first signs are already visible and that it will be of a magnitude hard for anyone to envisage.
5G could be particularly harmful to insects. 5G radiation will penetrate at least 1 mm; proportionately this will affect many insects much more than larger animals. It could also be devastating for many plants, which also have many key tissues and systems within 1 mm of the surface.”
https://www.electrosensitivity.co/plants-and-animals.html
WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR ABOUT HARMS TO WILDLIFE
In an attempt to give us an understanding of what’s going on at the cellular level when living beings are bombarded by EMR, author Benjamin Seller gives the following analogy:
“Living cells bombarded with all this technically generated radiation is like a classical guitar ensemble attempting to play Vivaldi, while right next to them ear-splitting rock music suddenly pumps out of 1000 watt loudspeakers: the classical musicians go out of time and can’t play together any more. …If cells ‘go out of time’, the organism becomes sick.”
It is therefore not surprising that different forms of life from the tiniest to the largest would be affected by EMR pollution, as we are all comprised of living cells.
Bio-scientist, Ulrich Warnke writes:
“Effects of the Earth’s field and of its compensation or effects of weak artificial fields have been detected in life at all levels of development: with bacteria, single and multi-cellular algae, higher plants, protozoa, flatworms, insects, snails and vertebrates.”
Warnke then goes on to describe some of these effects:
- “Magneto bacteria (Aquaspirillum magnetotacticum)—sludge at the bottom of the oceans—utilise the intensity of the Earth’s magnetic field for orientation.”
- “Fish navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field.”
- “Bees make use of the Earth’s magnetic field and its daily fluctuations for their orientation and communication. They also gain information on weather developments through the natural impulse signals in the atmosphere.”
- “Whales can sense the magnetic field of the Earth.”
- “Carrier pigeons are affected by variations in the Earth’s magnetic field down to flux densities in the nano-Tesla region.”
- “Migratory birds have a mechanism, which acts like a compass.”
In August of 2010, an Expert Committee to Study the possible Impacts of Communication Towers on Wildlife including Birds and Bees convened in India. Tasked with reviewing all the studies done to date both in India and abroad on the ill-effects of mobile towers on wildlife, they concluded:
The review of existing literature shows that the EMRs are interfering with the biological systems in more ways than one and there had already been some warning bells sounded in the case on bees and birds, which probably heralds the seriousness of this issue and indicates the vulnerability of other species as well…There is an urgent need to focus more scientific attention to this area before it would be too late.
The Expert Committee then offered a series of in-depth recommendations to India’s Ministry of Environment and Forest, which can be accessed here.
The full statement of their conclusions can be found here.
Though, in general, the US lags far behind other countries in recognizing the harms of EMR to wildlife and taking measures to preserve our flora and fauna, on February 7th, 2014, the US Department of the Interior sent a letter to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration stating:
“The placement and operation of communication towers….impact protected migratory birds in two significant ways.
The first is by injury, crippling loss, and death from collisions with towers and their supporting guy-wire infrastructure, where present. ….[and] impacts from non- ionizing electromagnetic radiation emitted by these structures.”
GLOBAL UNION AGAINST RADIATION DEPLOYMENT FROM SPACE
Global Union Against Radiation Deployment from Space
For Immediate Release
Date: April 19, 2018
Contacts: Ed Friedman, Bowdoinham, ME, USA 207-666-3372
Marcey Kliparchuk, Edmonton, AB, Canada 780-760-0872
info@stopglobalwifi.org
Proliferation of Wireless Radiation Emissions Accelerates New Silent Spring
On Earth Day, the Global Union Against Radiation Deployment from Space (GUARDS) warns it is essential the public recognizes what experts have long known: wireless radiation harms insects, birds, and trees.
This is not a new finding, but no global action has yet taken place. The 2010 Report on Possible Impacts of Communication Towers on Wildlife Including Birds and Bees, commissioned by India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests, reviewed the literature on health and environmental impacts of wireless radiation. As shown in their Figure 2 (below), the vast majority of over 900 peer-reviewed studies show wireless radiation causes negative biological effects on humans, other animals, plants, wildlife, bees, and birds.
Wireless technologies are promoted as green and harmless but are neither. In addition to detrimental biological effects, they contribute substantially to global carbon dioxide emissions and accelerated climate change.
According to Energy Consumption in Wired and Wireless Access Networks, “Wireless technologies will continue to consume at least 10 times more power than wired technologies when providing comparable access rates and traffic volumes.”
There is also strong scientific support for a moratorium on the implementation of 5th generation wireless or 5G which, like other wireless technologies, has never been safety-tested and will likely have a disproportionately negative effect on insect pollinators.
The current regulatory structure is focused solely on preventing thermally-based damage to wireless users. Environmental harm is occurring without any regulatory response to prevent it. Wireless exposure limits were never set to prevent harm to the environment. That is proving to be a mistake. Trees, crucial to global carbon dioxide balance and necessary for oxygen production, are being damaged and killed, as are pollinators and other wildlife.
As wireless technology proliferates, it creates damagingly high ambient levels of microwave radiation – electrosmog. Serious environmental damage is rapidly occurring including hereditary DNA damage and possible species extinctions.
Unlike chemical pollution, no physical contamination remains in the environment if wireless use is halted. An immediate reduction in wireless exposure means an immediate reduction in harm and will bear immediate fruit.
Commercial ventures, such as SpaceX and OneWeb bringing internet connectivity to the world via wireless radiation emissions from sky-based platforms, may accelerate environmental damage so quickly it becomes impossible for our regulatory agencies to act fast enough to prevent widespread environmental and economic devastation. In addition to increasing ambient microwave radiation, the vast number of rocket launches necessary to support an infrastructure of over 20,000 internet satellites will result in atmospheric ozone degradation caused by rocket exhaust – exacerbating ongoing ozone losses.
GUARDS was formed in 2014 to prevent irreversible atmospheric and biological damage from massive deployments of altitude-based radiation-emitting intrusive technologies.
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EFFECTS OF WIRELESS RADIATION ON BIRDS, BEES, AND OTHER POLLINATORS
No Place To Hide; Wireless Radiation Damages DNA.
BEES, BIRDS AND MANKIND – Destroying nature by “electrosmog”By Ulrich Warnke
To download full PDF file, go to, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241538484_BEES_BIRDS_AND_MANKIND
This 2008 document is perhaps the most comprehensive coverage of the topic of bees and birds to date. It also includes a section about how radiation disorients birds thus contributing to birds colliding into towers.
Excerpts:
Our future will depend on whether we can return to more human, social and ethical values again in the shaping of our lives and our relationship with nature.
In this paper, he [Ulrich] shows how wise and sensitive nature was about using electrical and magnetic fields in the creation of life. But he can for this reason also convincingly criticise the present foolish and irresponsible interference in nature’s house- keeping. It is clear from his paper that the powers that be in politics, the economy and science are in the process of destroying what nature has built up over millions of years.
Everyone who thinks beyond today and who inquires about what it means to be human is, in our opinion, called upon to contribute to this future: politicians guided by values rather than economical and tactical election issues; scientists and doctors more often remembering their obligation to the well-being of society and mankind; companies understanding, also in Germany, that profit and morality must be in harmony if they wish to remain successful in the long term. But what we need above all is critical citizens, who can spot the difference between technical progress and consumer foolishness: Citizens who, in both their roles as voters and consumers, remember that democracy once meant rule of the people, not ruling the people.
But if bees and other insects disappear, if birds are no longer present in their traditional territories and humans suffer from inexplicable functional deficiencies, then each on its own may appear puzzling at first. The apparently unrelated and puzzling phenomena actually have a common trigger, however. Man-made technology created magnetic, electrical and electromagnetic transmitters which fundamentally changed the natural electromagnetic energies and forces on earth’s surface – radically changing million- year-old pivotal controlling factors in biological evolution.
Electromagnetic Pollution Risk to Bees Environmental Pollution: A New Perspective 2019 | Lynne Wycherley | The Bee Keeper’s Quarterly
As nations race to adopt 5G, driving up environmental electromagnetic pollution, Lynne Wycherley asks whether such trends pose veiled risks to our bees and other pollinators. Conscious of bees’ exquisite electromagnetic sensitivity, she invites us to explore many recent peer-
reviewed findings and to take a new look at electromagnetic hygiene.
“if abandoned to 5G and other rocketing EMFs, insects will face pollution levels that far exceed emerging biological wisdom…”
https://tinyurl.com/EMR-risks-bees-Wyc
TOO MUCH MOBILE RINGING WILL SOON MEAN BIRDS NO LONGER SINGING – Reports are flooding in from around the world about the lethal threat of mobile communications to birds. CARRIER PIGEONS NO LONGER ABLE TO FIND THEIR WAY HOME By Benjamin Seller. Facts Are Facts, No. 4, Page 2.
Well referenced article on the various ways radio frequency microwave radiation affects different species of birds.
DISTURBING HONEYBEES’ BEHAVIOR WITH ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES: A METHODOLOGY | Danial Favre | Published, Aug. 7th, 2017 | Journal of Behavior, JSciMed Central
EXPOSURE OF INSECTS TO RADIO-FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS FROM 2 TO 120 GHZ April 16th, 2018 |
Arno Thielens, et al | Scientific Reports
This is perhaps the first study done on how the higher millimeter wave frequencies that will be used for 5g will impact insects.
“A shift of 10% of the incident power density to frequencies above 6 GHz would lead to an increase in absorbed power between 3–370%. This could lead to changes in insect behaviour, physiology, and morphology over time due to an increase in body temperatures, from dielectric heating.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22271-3/metrics
BRIEFING PAPER ON THE NEED FOR RESEARCH INTO THE CUMULATIVE IMPACTS OF COMMUNICATION TOWERS ON MIGRATORY BIRDS AND OTHER WILDLIFE IN THE UNITED STATES DIVISION OF MIGRATORY BIRD MANAGEMENT (DMBM), U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE – for Public Release
Albert M. Manville, II, Ph.D., Senior Wildlife Biologist, Division of Migratory Bird Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (2009)
“ISSUE: The number of communication towers including radio, television, cellular, microwave, emergency broadcast, national defense, and paging towers has grown exponentially in the U.S. over the past decade. These towers present health and safety challenges for humans, but they are also a growing impact to populations of migratory birds, 4-5 million of which are conservatively estimated to die each year in tower and guy-wire collisions (Manville 2005, 2009). Virtually unknown, however, are the potential effects of non-ionizing, non-thermal tower radiation on avifauna, including at extremely low radiation levels, far below maximum safe1 exposure levels previously determined for humans.”
Published Research On The Adverse Effect Of Wireless Technology And Electromagnetic Radiation On Bees Collection of publications on the effects of wireless technology courtesy of Environmental Health Trust.
COLLATERAL DAMAGE FROM TECHNOLOGY
(Beyond the negative impacts of radio frequency/microwave radiation on wildlife, there are various other ways that our technology is harming wildlife. Following are a few such examples.)
GRAUER GORILLA POPULATION IN THE CONGO:
Illegal mining hits Congo gorilla population: conservationists JOHANNESBURG
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-africa-gorillas-idUSKCN0X30T2
This Reuter’s article discusses the devastation and plunder our digital mania is causing to Grauer gorillas in the Congo. Though the environmental threat is not from EMR, this impact wildlife,
BIRDS COLLIDING WITH CELL TOWERS AND OTHER STRUCTURES:
Birds colliding with wind turbines
TOWERS, TURBINES, POWER LINES, AND BUILDINGS—STEPS BEING TAKEN BY THE U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE TO AVOID OR MINIMIZE TAKE OF MIGRATORY BIRDS AT THESE STRUCTURES – By ALBERT M. MANVILLE, II
Proceedings of the Fourth International Partners in Flight Conference: Tundra to Tropics 262–272
http://www.electronicsilentspring.com/primers/wildlife/manville-paper/
“As imperiled bird populations continue to increase, new challenges arise from the effects of growing numbers of communication towers, power lines, commercial wind facilities, and buildings. This paper briefly reviews steps the USFWS is taking to seriously address structural impacts to migratory birds.”
WIRELESS KILLS TREES
Source: www.electricalpollution.com
WIRELESS KILLS TREES
We rely on plants and trees for our very lives, even people living in the most plant-free areas of major cities rely on plants for their existence.
Plants produce the oxygen we breathe and are the basis of all the food we eat. Even the most carnivorous amongst us rely on plants because the animals we consume all consume plants. Our climate is dependent on trees, sufficient numbers of trees, which is why the destruction of the Amazon rain forest is so disastrous.
Contrary to industry representations, wireless technology is neither a sustainable nor environmentally-friendly technology because wireless connectivity uses far more energy than wired connectivity. According to Energy Consumption in Wired and Wireless Access Networks, “Wireless technologies will continue to consume at least 10 times more power than wired technologies when providing comparable access rates and traffic volumes. PON [passive optical networks] will continue to be the most energy-efficient access technology.” (http://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/rtucker/publications/files/energy-wired-wireless.pdf), even as technology becomes more energy efficient. A higher amount of energy is consumed in transmitting large amounts of information through the air (a medium that has high resistance and high level of signal absorption) compared to transmission via various corded communication connections (e.g., copper or fiber optic based). In fact, in a paper looking at the energy consumption of cloud computing, the authors state, “Our energy calculations show that by 2015, wireless cloud will consume up to 43 TWh, compared to only 9.2 TWh in 2012, an increase of 460%. This is an increase in carbon footprint from 6 megatonnes of CO2 in 2012 to up to 30 megatonnes of CO2 in 2015, the equivalent of adding 4.9 million cars to the roads. Up to 90% of this consumption is attributable to wireless access network technologies, data centres account for only 9%.”(emphasis added) (http://www.ceet.unimelb.edu.au/publications/ceet-white-paper-wireless-cloud.pdf) It is clear from the discussion, that cloud computing does not save energy unless it displaces local computing power, otherwise it just increases energy consumption, especially when accessed wirelessly.
Wireless devices use radiofrequency (RF) radiation sent indiscriminately through the air to communicate. The ambient levels of RF radiation have increased rapidly with the proliferation of wireless technology. Unfortunately, regulators around the globe have had their heads in the sand, refusing to believe that RF radiation emitted by common wireless devices can have biological effects, unless they cook you. Regulations in the U.S., Canada and many other parts of the world are based on the avoidance of thermal harm, not protection from non-thermal detrimental biological effects, despite numerous studies documenting their existence. See http://www.emfscientist.org, http://www.mainecoalitiontostopsmartmeters.org/?p=1469, and http://www.bioinitiative.org.
Radiation from wireless technology is now jeopardizing the health of our trees and other plants!
Adverse Influence of Radio Frequency Background on Trembling Aspen Seedlings: Preliminary Observations by Katie Haggerty, a sham-controlled experiment using aspen seedlings, found that ambient RF levels at the experimental site in Colorado, U.S.A, were high enough to cause necrotic lesions on the leaves, decrease leader length and leaf area, and suppress fall anthocyanin production.
According to Haggerty (citing supporting references), suppression of fall anthocyanin production is quite detrimental to the trees.
During fall leaf senescence photosynthetic mechanisms become vulnerable to damage by visible light. Anthocyanins shield the photosynthetic apparatus from high light levels, preventing photoinhibition and damage to leaf tissue due to light stress. Transport of foliar nutrients requires energy provided by photosynthesis, and since the majority of nutrients in overwintering deciduous trees are derived from foliar nutrient transport during autumn leaf senescence, differences in anthocyanin production could have major effects on plant fitness.
Absence of proper fall color has serious health implications for the trees, but it has serious economic implications for many parts of the country that rely on fall color tourists for a major portion of their income. Below is a picture of our basswood which would normally turn a beautiful yellow color, instead of this crinkly brownish. It lost all its leaves shortly after this picture was taken. It never turned the lovely yellow color.
https://ehtrust.org/electromagnetic-fields-impact-tree-plant-growth/
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES ON THE EFFECTS OF EMF ON WILDLFE
- Electromagnetic radiation of mobile telecommunication antennas affects the abundance and composition of wild pollinators Journal of Insect Conservation | Apr. 2016 | Volume 20, Issue 2, pp 315–324
- The magnetic orientation of the Antarctic amphipod Gondogeneia antarctica is cancelled by very weak radiofrequency fields K. Tomanova, M. Vacha Journal of Experimental Biology 2016 : doi: 10.1242/jeb.132878
- Apoptotic cell death during Drosophila oogenesis is differentially increased by electromagnetic radiation depending on modulation, intensity and duration of exposure. PubMed | Electromagn Biol Med. 2016 | Sagioglou, Manta, Giannarakis, Skouroliakou, Margaritis LH1
- Illegal mining hits Congo gorilla population: conservationists Reuters | Ed Stoddard | Apr. 6, 2016 |
- An Electronic Silent Spring | Katie Singer Facing the Dangers and Creating Safe Limits - Wildlife
- BEES, BIRDS AND MANKIND. Destroying nature by “electrosmog” Ulrich Warnke
- Mass death of birds | Electromagnetic Research Foundation of South Africa Georgiy Ostroumov, Ph.D.
- How Cell Phones are Killing Birds Electromagnetic Research Foundation of South Africa
- Electromagnetic Research Foundation of South Africa Nature's Corner
- The Disappearing Bees: CCD and Electromagnetic Radiation Colin Buchanan | 22.02.2008
- The Big Bee Death | Brennpunkt April 4th, 2007
- Help Protect Our Migratory Birds and Our Health
- Wireless Tips | Wireless and the Environment | Electrical Pollution You can help protect the environment by taking a few simple, easy actions.
- National Geographic | Bees Can Sense the Electric Fields of Flowers OT EXACTLY ROCKET SCIENCE A Blog by Ed Yong | Feb. 21, 2013 |
- Antenna Towers make it a Dog’s Life...
Walter Koran | Facts are Facts | Original article in ZeitenSchrift
- Migratory Birds & Magnetic Fields: Deadly Interference Dr. Ulrich Warnke, Facts Are Facts, No. 11
- Dying Bees: To Gabble or Gobble? Benjamin Seller, Facts Are Facts, No. 4.
- Mobile telephony: The Famous Last Straw Why damage from cell phones is only now beginning to come to light | Benjamin Seller, No. 4, Page 10
- Too Much Mobile Ringing Will Soon Mean Birds No Longer Singing Benjamin Seller, Facts Are Facts, No. 11, page 24.
- MOEF Issues Advisory on use of Mobile Towers in a Way to Minimize their Impacts on Wildlife Including Birds and Bees
- Radio Frequency Technology damages Plant DNA in 48hrs and is carcinogenic, new research reveals Sara Vincent, Feb. 21, 2017 | EmaxHealth
- Wireless Kills Trees - Website Website that includes an extensive section on the effects of RF on trees.
- A Visual Pathway Links Brain Structures Active during Magnetic Compass Orientation in Migratory Birds Dominik Heyers , Martina Manns, Harald Luksch, Onur Güntürkün, Henrik Mouritsen | September 26, 2007
- Resonance effects indicate a radical-pair mechanism for avian magnetic compass Thorsten Ritz1, Peter Thalau, John B. Phillips, Roswitha Wiltschko & Wolfgang Wiltschko
- On the use of magnets to disrupt the physiological compass of birds K Wang, E Mattern and T Ritz, Oct. 4th, 2006
- Possible Effects of Electromagnetic Fields from Phone Masts on a Population of White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) med./bio. By: Balmori A | Electromagn Biol Med 2005; 24 (2): 109-119
- Birds suffer from biological effects of GSM, 3G (UMTS), DECT, WIFI, TETRA August 14, 2005 | Omega News
- h.e.s.e. Project |Topical Issues, Nature
- Research on Radio Frequency Radiation and the Environment List of studies, reports and reviews on RF radiation and the environment
- Impacts of radio-frequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) from cell phone towers and wireless devices on biosystem and ecosystem – a review Biology and Medicine Review Article | Volume 4, Issue 4, Pages 202–216, 2012
- PowerWatch UK - Website Radiofrequency EMFs and Health Risks 6. Animals & plants© Alasdair and Jean Philips 16.12.16 | Section 6 Animals, Birds, Insects and Plants
- Environmental Health Trust Website | Bees, Butterflies And Wildlife: Research On Electromagnetic Fields And The Environment
- An Electronic Silent Spring - Website Katie Singer
- A review of the ecological effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) Environment International Volume 51, January 2013, Pages 116–140 | S. Cucurachia, , , W.L.M. Tamisa, M.G. Vijvera, W.J.G.M. Peijnenburga, b, J.F.B. Bolteb, G.R. de Snooa
- Mobile phone-induced honeybee worker piping Daniel Favre, 13 April 2011
- Electromagnetic pollution from phone masts. Effects on wildlife. Balmori A, DOI: 10.1016/j.pathophys.2009.01.007 | PubMed
- The Birds, the Bees and Electromagnetic Pollution Andrew Goldsworthy BSc PhD, May 2009
- Is Electromagnetism One of the Causes of Colony Collapse Disorder? A Work Plan for Testing This Hypothesis April 12th, 2017 | Marie-Claire Cammaerts* University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
- Tree damage caused by mobile phone base stations An observation guide Helmut Breunig | March 2O17 | Photos and RF measurements by Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam Additional photos by Alfonso Balmori, Helmut Breunig, Örjan Hallberg, March 2O17 Volker Schorpp and Monika Schuberth-Brehm
- Review Article Plant Responses to High Frequency Electromagnetic Fields Alain Vian, Eric Davies, Michel Gendraud, and Pierre Bonnet
- Disturbing Honeybees’ Behavior with Electromagnetic Waves: a Methodology Danial Favre | Published Aug. 7th, 2017 | Journal of Behavior, JSciMedCentral
- Tree damages in the vicinity of mobile phone base stations Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam and Horst Eger | 2013
- BEES, BIRDS AND MANKIND Destroying Nature by ‘Electrosmog Effects of Wireless Communication Technologies A Brochure Series by the Competence Initiative for the Protection of Humanity, Environment and Democracy Brochure 1 | Ulrich Warnke | Published by Prof. Dr. med. Karl Hecht, Dr. med. Markus Kern, Prof. Dr. phil. Karl Richter, and Dr. med. Hans-Christoph Scheiner | 2007 Eng. Trans. 2009
- Six year study proves wireless kills trees? Aug. 2nd, 2017 | Health Freedom Idaho
- Review: Weak radiofrequency radiation exposure from mobile phone radiation on plants. Halgamuge MN | US National Library of Medicine | National Institutes of Health
- As Cell Service Expands, National Parks Become Digital Battlegrounds Stuart Leavenworth, Dec. 29th, 2017 | Government Technology
- Is electromagnetism one of the causes of the CCD? A work plan for testing this hypothesis
- Exposure of Insects to Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields from 2 to 120 GHz Mar. 2nd, 2018 | Arno Thielens, et al | Scientific Reports
- Wireless Kills Trees | Webpage We rely on plants and trees for our very lives, even people living in the most plant-free areas of major cities rely on plants for their existence.
- RADIATION FROM CELL PHONES, WIFI ARE HURTING THE BIRDS AND THE BEES; 5G MAY MAKE IT WORSE May 19th, 2018 | Dana Dovey | Newsweek
- Reports on impacts of EMR (electromagnetic radiations) on wildlife May 18th, 2018 | EKLIPSE, a EU funded project on ecosystems and biodiversity
- Proliferation of Wireless Radiation Emissions Accelerates New Silent Spring April 19th, 2018 | Ed Friedman and Marcey Kliparchuk,
- Electrosmog and species conservation July 16th, 2014 | Alfonso Balmori | Science of the Total Environment
- Our cellphone addiction is turning wireless tech into an invisible weapon that’s destroying wildlife July 14th, 2018 | Reynard Loki | Salon
- RADIATION FROM CELLPHONES, WI-FI IS HURTING THE BIRDS AND THE BEES; 5G MAY MAKE IT WORSE May 19th, 2018 | Dana Dovey | Newsweek
- We, the People… are driving insects to extinction… FranciscoSánchez-Bayo and Kris A.G.Wyckhuys.
- Exposure of Insects to Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields from 2 to 120 GHz Dec. 2018 | Arno Thielens, David Bryan Mortimor, Geoffrey Duncan Bell, Mark Kerry Greco
- Report on Possible Impacts of Communication Towers on Wildlife Including Birds and Bees Expert Group to study the possible impacts of communication towers on Wildlife including Birds and Bees
- Impacts to Birds and Bats Due to Collisions and Electrocutions from Some Tall Structures in the United States: Wires, Towers, Turbines, and Solar Arrays—State of the Art in Addressing the Problems Albert M. Manville II
- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Concerns Over Potential Radiation Impacts of Cellular Communication Towers on Migratory Birds and Other Wildlife Albert M. Manville, II, Ph.D. Senior Wildlife Biologist Division of Migratory Bird Management, USFWS
- Electronics in Our Ecosystem Oct. 4, 2015 | Katie Singer |
- Effects of Wireless Radiation on Birds and Other Wildlife A Briefing Memo by Dr. Albert Manville | July 14, 2016
- U.S. Department of Interior Declares FCC Exposure Standards “Out of Date and Inapplicable” Mar. 23, 2014
- US Department of the Interior warns: communication towers threaten birds
- Cracking Mystery Reveals How Electronics Affect Bird Migration National Geographic | Susan McGrath | May 7, 2014
- Testimony of Albert M. Manville, II, Ph.D., C.W. B., and Principal, Wildlife and Habitat Conservation Solutions, LLC On behalf of Friends of Amazon Creek, Before the City of Eugene City Planning Department....| May 6, 2015
- Wireless Devices & Wildlife The effects of EMR from wireless devices on wildlife Excerpts and Resources from An Electronic Silent Spring
- Wildlife The effects of electromagnetic radiation from wireless devices on wildlife. An Introductory Packet Excerpts and Resources from An Electronic Silent Spring
- Antenna Towers make it a Dog’s Life… The effects of cellular and wireless phones on the health of dogs, cats, horses and cows
- What We Know, Can Infer, and Don’t Yet Know about Impacts from Thermal and Non-thermal Non-ionizing Radiation to Birds and Other Wildlife A BRIEFING MEMORANDUM | Albert M. Manville, II, Ph.D., C.W.B. | July 14, 2016