Radiation from Wi-Fi networks is harmful to trees, causing significant variations in growth, as well as bleeding and fissures in the bark, according to a recent study in the Netherlands.
Common guys, log off for the trees... They'll grow funny... or something...
Besides the electromagnetic fields created by mobile-phone networks and wireless LANs, ultrafine particles emitted by cars and trucks may also be to blame.
In other tree news:
Taiwanese researchers have come up with the elegant idea of replacing streetlights with trees, by implanting their leaves with gold nanoparticles.
Avder wrote:The nanoparticle stuff is pretty cool, but the rest of it really needs a lot more evidence and concrete analysis before I'll believe it.
If it was really dangerous, who cares about trees! What about people??! I don't think there's a real danger or people would be suing for having cancer on their laps...
On a related note, I remember a story I heard about a small town in the UK. The telco had built a huge transmission tower in the town. Shortly after, people started complaining about having head aches and dizziness and so on. They eventually started a lawsuit to prove the tower EMR was causing health problems. During the court case the telco revealed that the tower had not even been activated yet.
