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Friday, November 19, 2010

MacDailyNews: Study finds WiFi makes trees sick; affects all deciduous trees in the Western world

MacDailyNews: "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," René Schoemaker reports for Webwereld Netherlands.



"All deciduous trees in the Western world are affected, according to the study by a group of institutions, including the TU Delft University and Wageningen University," Schoemaker reports. "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."



Schoemaker reports, "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."