Wi-Fi Makes Trees Sick, Study Says (Wageningen U, Netherlands)

PC World ^ | 11/22/10 | René Schoemaker

[NormsRevenge]

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. 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.

All deciduous trees in the Western world are affected, according to the study by Wageningen University. The city of Alphen aan den Rijn ordered the study five years ago after officials found unexplained abnormalities on trees that couldn't be ascribed to a virus or bacterial infection.

Additional testing found the disease to occur throughout the Western world. In the Netherlands, about 70 percent of all trees in urban areas show the same symptoms, compared with only 10 percent five years ago. Trees in densely forested areas are hardly affected.

Besides the electromagnetic fields created by mobile-phone networks and wireless LANs, ultrafine particles emitted by cars and trucks may also be to blame. These particles are so small they are able to enter the organisms.

The study exposed 20 ash trees to various radiation sources for a period of three months. Trees placed closest to the Wi-Fi radio demonstrated a "lead-like shine" on their leaves that was caused by the dying of the upper and lower epidermis of the leaves. This would eventually result in the death of parts of the leaves. The study also found that Wi-Fi radiation could inhibit the growth of corn cobs.

[kcvl]

The Netherlands should stick to finding missing jawbones found on the island of Aruba.

[sbMKE]

My maples bleed all summer long. Some types of trees just leak sap.

[Still Thinking]

...but texting on a cell phone next to your ear and temple is just fine.....?????

Well, as long as it's not a hate text. You know, any text from a conservative, even if it's about the weather.

[rfp1234]

And Di-Fi makes Californians sick.

[Still Thinking]

BTW, how do you text with your phone between your ear and temple? Are you extremely short sighted as well as walleyed? ;-)

[reagan_fanatic]

Now you've done it. You've gone and made the hippies cry!

[DManA]

I told my girlfriend:

I pine for you and sometimes balsam.

[DManA]

Bet you’d have a good view of the forest if it weren’t for all those trees.

[BerryDingle]

The answer my friend........is flapping in the wind
The answer is flapping in the wind.

[EEDUDE]

“It’s a pattern.”

Very perceptive on your part. I’ve been noticing the same trend! LOL!

[Proud2BeRight]

“The study exposed 20 ash trees to various radiation sources for a period of three months.”

Wonder if they checked for the emerald ash borer?

[GOPJ]

...a mulch volcano. Side it smothers the roots. Leads to fissures on the bark and eventually kills it. After that I started noticing this everywhere. Exp. city boulevards. Driving me nuts. I really is killing these beautiful and expensive trees. I just want to get out and scrap that junk away. Ignorance is killing more trees then WIFI.

WHEN, when, when did a liberal EVER care about facts? Come on, this could be the next liberal movement now that global warming is being debunked...

I thought it would be 'there's no water, we're all going to die' - but "all the trees are going to die, SO we'll take away your computer" and fries and hamburgers etc. will work better for the little liberal control freaks.

Liberals love to push people around.

[Betis70]

Perfect line.

But the oaks can’t help their feelings
If they like the way they’re made
And they wonder why the maples
Can’t be happy in their shade?

[MortMan]

Wood you have felt that way if she were Twiggy?