Photograph by Elizabeth Foley
Trees and Forests:
The Impacts of Radiofrequency Radiation
Pinus bruta (Turkish pine)
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A base station effects flowering, cone yield, and germination among Turkish pines.
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Ozell et al 2021
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Halil Baris Ozel, Mehmet Cetin, Hakan Sevik, Tugrul Varol, Berkant Isik, Barbaros Yaman. (2021) The effects of base station as an electromagnetic radiation source on flower and cone yield and germination percentage in Pinus brutia Ten. Biologia Futura 72:3, pages 359-365.
Trembling Aspens
When shielded from a cell tower, trembling aspens produced longer seedlings and larger leaves.
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Haggerty 2010: Trembling aspens have been declining in the Rocky Mountains and failing to display the brilliant colors normally displayed in the autumn. Biologist Katie Haggerty experimented by shielding some of the aspens from radiofrequency waves. After only two months, her shielded seedlings were 74 percent longer and their leaves 60 percent larger than either her unshielded seedlings or her mock-shielded seedlings. In the fall, only the shielded seedlings displayed the brilliant colors for which health aspens are famous. The seedlings that were left unshielded, outside of the Faraday cage were exposed as usual to the antenna’s radiofrequency fields. The unshielded trees had a . The trees that were shielded from the cell tower radiation had ...percent.
Trees Injured Near Mobile Phone Base Stations
2016 Balmori
Observation of trees near a mobile phone base station (cell tower)
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Balmori. Radiofrequency radiation injures trees around mobile phone base stations, 2016
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https://www.baubiologie.de/downloads/wug/rf-radiation-injures-trees-2016.pdf
Trees near base station show signs of injury
Radiofrequency radiation injures trees around mobile phone base stations
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Waldmann-Selsama, Balmori, Breunig, et al
Radiofrequency radiation injures trees around mobile phone base stations
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Irradiated Seeds
For a science fiar experiment, a team of five ninth grade students in Hjallerup, Denmark filled twelve trays with 400 cress seeds each. They placed six trays in a window next to three laptop computers and two WiFi routers, and six trays in a similar window but without computers or routers. After 6 days, none of the irradiated seeds had